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“The fortress of Khaybar will be conquered at ‘Ali’s hand.”(*[1])As a miracle of his prophethood and beyond all expectation, the following day ‘Ali ripped off the gate of the fortress of Khaybar, usedit as a shield, and seized the fortress. When he threw it aside after the conquest, eight strong men – or according to another version, forty – tried to lift it, but could not do so.(*[2])
- ↑ *Bukhari, Jihad, 102, 143; al-Maghazi, 38; Muslim, Fada’il al-Sahaba, 34, 35; Musnad, ii, 484; v, 333; Bayhaqi, Dala’il al-Nubuwwa, iv, 205.
- ↑ *Suyuti, al-Durar al-Muntathira (Mustafa al-Babi al-Halabi, 1960), 118; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa’l- Nihaya, iv, 189-190; al-‘Ajluni, Kashf al-Khafa’, i, 365.