Ibn al-Zibari
Welcome back to the blog, where we strip away the whitewashed veil of history to expose the raw, blood-soaked truths beneath. Today, we’re zeroing in on the harrowing tale of Ibn al-Zibari, a brilliant poet whose razor-sharp verses nearly sealed his fate at the hands of Muhammad’s ruthless enforcers. This isn’t merely the story of one defiant voice—it’s a glaring indictment of Muhammad’s tyrannical crusade against anyone who dared challenge his self-proclaimed divinity. In a faith that parades as a beacon of peace and tolerance, Ibn al-Zibari‘s ordeal shines a merciless light on the satanic fraud at Islam’s heart: a prophet who equated satire with sedition, poetry with treason, and crushed dissent under the boot of divine retribution. Forget the fairy tale of Muhammad as the mercy to the worlds (Quran 21:107)—his mercy was selective, doled out only to those who knelt, while critics faced the assassin’s blade. Ibn al-Zibari‘s brush with death reveals how Muhammad weaponized fabricated revelations to silence opposition, forging Islam’s enduring legacy of intolerance, especially toward Jews, and laying the foundation for a religion that despises free speech. Join me as we dissect this epic clash of words against the sword, unmasking the warlord behind the prophet’s mask.
Ibn al-Zibari: The Poet Who Dared Mock Muhammad and Courted Death
Ibn al-Zibari, revered also as Ka’b ibn Zuhayr, wasn’t some fringe rabble-rouser. Born into the elite Quraysh tribe, he was a poetic titan in pre-Islamic Arabia, where verses were the currency of power—think ancient Twitter storms or brutal editorial takedowns that could topple reputations overnight. Ibn al-Zibari wielded his quill like a lance, crafting odes that lacerated Muhammad’s pretensions to prophethood. He ridiculed the so-called revelations as opportunistic power grabs, exposed the glaring hypocrisies in the budding cult, and mourned the Quraysh nobles slaughtered at the Battle of Badr in 624 CE.
That pivotal clash saw Muhammad’s ragtag army annihilate Mecca’s finest, a humiliation Ibn al-Zibari immortalized in scorching satire. His poems painted the prophet not as a divine emissary, but as a scheming impostor hungry for dominion. He sparred verbally with Muhammad’s propagandists, like Hassan ibn Thabit and Ka’b ibn Malik, escalating a war of words into a cultural bloodbath. In the tribal poetry slams of the time, Ibn al-Zibari‘s barbs landed like precision strikes, but Medina under Muhammad was no democracy. Free expression was a privilege for sycophants only. Critics—especially Jews who saw through his ploy to hijack their messianic hopes and scriptures—were marked for eradication.
Sensing the noose tightening, Ibn al-Zibari bolted to Najran with his ally Hubayrah, but Muhammad’s vengeance knew no borders. The self-styled apostle brazenly declared Ibn al-Zibari‘s blood halal—fair game for any Muslim to spill—punishment enough for insulting words alone. This wasn’t justice; it was a proto-fatwa, a license to murder penned in the ink of ego. Hunted like prey, Ibn al-Zibari slunk back to Medina in desperation. There, in a spectacle of survival, he unveiled his masterpiece, Banat Su’ad, a groveling epic recast as praise: likening Muhammad to a roaring lion, sword flashing like lightning, subduing all foes. The prophet, basking in the flattery, draped his cloak over the poet in a theatrical pardon—after Ibn al-Zibari‘s coerced conversion, of course. Hubayrah, defiant to the end, perished in Najran without recanting. The message? Submit or die.
Ibn al-Zibari‘s reprieve exposes Muhammad’s sinister template: intimidate, isolate, then forgive the convert while the unbowed rot. If this is the perfect example (uswa hasana, Quran 33:21) for humanity, what kind of monster does that make Islam? And the antisemitic venom? Though not Jewish himself, Ibn al-Zibari‘s fate echoes the extermination of Jewish bards like Ka’b ibn al-Ashraf, whose post-Badr satires earned him a nighttime hit squad. When honeyed words failed, Muhammad’s sword converted the rest.
The Broader Campaign: Muhammad’s Assassination Roster and Islam’s Satanic Intolerance
Ibn al-Zibari‘s survival was a fluke amid a slaughterhouse of silenced voices. Muhammad perfected the art of outsourced murder, rebranding criticism as an assault on Allah and His Messenger—a blank check for butchery. Sahih al-Bukhari (4037) captures the depravity: after a polytheist hurled insults, Muhammad sneered, Who will rid me of this man? Al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam volunteered, dueled the wretch, slit his throat, and looted his camel as a trophy. No court, no due process—just vigilante justice.
Jews drew the shortest straw. Ka’b ibn al-Ashraf, shielded by treaty, mocked Muhammad’s Badr victories; the prophet authorized a stealth assassination, with Aws tribesmen stabbing him to death in his bed. Not to be outdone, Khazraj warriors pleaded for their shot: permission granted to decapitate Ibn Abi al-Huqayq, a Khaybar Jewish leader smeared for hostility via mere words and Quraysh support (Tarikh al-Tabari, Vol. 8, pp. 18-20). This wasn’t defense—it was ethnic cleansing masked as piety.
Quranic bile fueled the frenzy: 5:82 damns Jews as most intense in enmity toward believers; 5:60 transmogrifies them into apes and pigs. Paired with Muhammad’s hit list, this rhetoric birthed Islam’s primal antisemitism. The Khaybar conquest saw Jewish wealth plundered and survivors feminized into sex slaves; Banu Qurayza’s treason (post-Trench doubts) ended in 600-900 beheadings, men slaughtered in trenches before their families. Ibn al-Zibari‘s saga fits this genocidal mosaic: reject the fraud, forfeit your life.
This satanic playbook reverberates today. Blasphemy laws in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and beyond echo Muhammad’s edicts, jailing or lynching insulters. The Rushdie fatwa, Charlie Hebdo massacres, Samuel Paty beheading—Ibn al-Zibari would recognize the script. Islam’s peace is submission; peace comes via the grave for dissenters.
Lessons from Ibn al-Zibari: Exposing the Satanic Fraud of Islam’s Foundation
Ibn al-Zibari‘s near-martyrdom isn’t dusty lore—it’s the DNA of a faith rotten with intolerance. Muhammad, far from sage or savior, was a thin-skinned despot whose revelations conveniently neutralized foes. His mercy? A carrot for converts, stick for the rest. Jews, as eternal villains in this narrative, embody Islam’s baked-in hatred, from Quranic curses to medieval pogroms and modern jihads.
Imagine a religion of peace where a poem merits a death warrant. Ibn al-Zibari forces us to confront the lie: Islam isn’t divine—it’s a satanic scam, propping a warlord’s ego on fabricated gods and rivers of blood. Tolerance? Only for bootlickers. Free speech? An alien concept. Today’s Islamofascism, from Hamas charnel houses to blasphemy mobs, flows straight from this source.
Scrutinize the hadiths, sirah, and Quran yourself. Was this guidance from on high or the rage of a false prophet? Ibn al-Zibari survived by surrender; countless others didn’t. Islam’s core isn’t compassion—it’s coercion, conquest, and carnage. Reject the fraud, or history repeats its grim lesson.
Key Sources
– Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Expeditions (Maghazi): Assassination calls, e.g., Hadith 4037 on Ka’b ibn al-Ashraf.
– Al-Sarim al-Maslul fi Shatim al-Rasul by Ibn Taymiyyah: Defends insult killings, details Ibn al-Zibari (pp. 105+).
– Sirat Rasul Allah by Ibn Ishaq: Ibn al-Zibari‘s exile, Banat Su’ad, pardon (Guillaume trans., pp. 239-240).
– Tarikh al-Tabari (Vol. 8): Ibn Abi al-Huqayq murder (SUNY trans., pp. 18-20).
– Quran 5:82, 5:60: Jews as foes, cursed beasts.
– Sahih Muslim, Book 19: Assassin glorification (Hadith 4436, sunnah.com/muslim:4436).
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