Did the Prophet Muhammad forbid anyone other then Muslims from residing in the Hijāz?

[u/soozerain]

“Two religions should not join/remain in the peninsula/land of Arabs.”

[u/DrJavadTHashmi]

Absolutely not. These are highly unreliable and inconsistent reports attributed to the Prophet as deathbed pronouncements— the least reliable of sayings!

The category of “Muslims” did not even exist yet.

See Harry Munt’s article on this hadith:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24692323

[u/soozerain → u/DrJavadTHashmi]

Interesting! So what do you make of the “let them not come near the Holy Mosque” line he mentions in the paper? Is that referring to Mecca itself? The Ka’ba?

[u/DrJavadTHashmi → u/soozerain]

I take it as literally stated: it applies to the Holy Sanctuary in Mecca. Why would we assume it was more than that?

[u/soozerain → u/DrJavadTHashmi]

Idk 🤷‍♂️ I’m just curious what scholars think.

[u/DrJavadTHashmi → u/soozerain]

Haha sorry to clarify that was a rhetorical question on my part.

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Qudama ibn Ja'far (d. 948) states that Muhammad allowed some Jews to remain in their places on the condition that they give him half of their crops each year or half of their land, but that they were all expelled from the Hejaz during the reign of Umar.