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Our Prophet's (pbuh) Relations with
the People of the Book

• There are accounts of our Prophet (pbuh) attending
wedding feasts of the People of the Book, visiting them
when they were sick and giving them presents.

• When the Christians of Najran visited him, the
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) spread out his robe on the

ground for them to sit on and welcomed them in that
fashion.

• One of the wives of our Prophet (pbuh) was Marya
bint Sham'ûn (also known as Maryam al-Qubtiyyah),
a Coptic Christian from Egypt.

• Our mother Safiyya bint Huyayy, one of the wives of
the Prophet (pbuh), was the daughter of the chief of the
Jewish tribe Banu Nadir of Medina, Huyayy ibn
Akhtab.

• The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) allowed the Jews to
become a party to the Constitution of Medina signed
with the clans of the Aws and Khazraj, thus ensuring
the survival of the Jews as a separate religious group

among the Muslims.

• Under the article, "The Jews of Banu Awf are a com-
munity along with the believers. To the Jews their reli-
gion, and to the Muslim their religion," of the Consti-