[Footnote 251: Some of the Koreizites were released, among whom we hear of Zobeir Ibn Bata, and Rifaa. They were pardoned by Mohammad.] [Footnote 252: Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. III, p. 279.] [Footnote 253: _History of Mohammad's Campaigns_: Edited by Von Kremer, p. 374.] [Footnote 254: "Compare the remarks of Ibn-Khaldun (Prelegomenes d' Ibn Khaldoun, traduits par M. de Slane, Part I, p. 14)."] [Footnote 255: A Critical Examination of the Life and Teachings of Mohammed, by Syed Ameer Ali, Moulvi, M.A., LL.B., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, p. 113: William and Norgate, London, 1873.] [Footnote 256: Ibn Hisham, p. 689. Others say the males were kept in the house of Osman-bin-Zaed, and the females and children in the house of Bint-al-Haris. _Vide_ Insan-al-Oyoon, by Halabi. Vol. III, p. 93.] _Some Miscellaneous Objections Refuted._ 1.--_Omm Kirfa._ [Sidenote: 72. The execution of Omm Kirfa for brigandage.] The barbarous execution of Omm Kirfa, a female, who was notorious as the mistress of a nest of robbers, by tying her each leg to a separate camel and being torn asunder, is not a fact. It is only mentioned by Katib Wackidi, and is not to be found in any other earliest account of Wackidi, Ibn Is-hak, and Ibn Hisham. Even Katib Wackidi does not say that the execution was ordered by Mohammad, and it is not fair on the part of Sir W. Muir to hold Mohammad an accomplice in the ferocious act, because he reads of no disapprobation expressed by the Prophet at such an inhuman treatment.[257] But in the first place the narration is a mere fiction; and secondly, the traditions are, as a rule, always incomplete; in one place they are given shorter, and in another longer, according to the circumstances of the occasion on which they are originally recited. Ibn Hisham relates, that "Zaid-bin-Harisa ordered Kays-bin-Mosahhar to execute Omm Kirfa, so he executed her with a violent execution." ('_Katlan Aneefan_,' p. 980.) He does not relate that Mohammad was even informed of the execution after the party had returned from this terrible mission. I think the word '_aneef_' (_violent_ or _severe_), as used originally by the narrator, might have been the cause of the growth of the story of executing by tying up to two camels, by way of a gratuitous explanation or glossary, as another tradition relates that she was tied to the tails of two horses (_vide Koostalanee_ in his Commentary on Bokharee, Vol. III, p. 307). 2.--_Urnee Robbers._ [Sidenote: 73. The alleged mutilation of the Urnee robbers.]