Statistics of the Victims of the Bani Qurayzah Ghazwah: A Study Based on the Method of Document-Text Analysis

Islamic narrative sources provided different statistics on the number of Jews killed in the Bani Qurayzah battle, mostly between 400 and 900. Except for a few, the other narrations are “mursal” and not musnad. Some historians and scholars have looked at the statistics with confirmation, some have denied them, and some have remained silent about them. In this article, we intend to date the mentioned statements as much as possible based on the method of document-text analysis, and determine the period and context of their emergence. In the next step, using some other narrations related to that battle and related historical information such as the number of tribes, we will analyze and evaluate the statistics. From all the studies, we can conclude that the relevant narrations, at least after the killing of Bani Qurayzah was accepted among Muslims, spread to various Islamic regions such as Mecca, Medina, and Kufa in the first half of the second century, and a little later. It has spread to cities like Baghdad and Basra.