| abstract | - There are numerous written accounts of Muhammad having had contact with many Jews from tribes living in and around Medina. His relationship with Jews includes his theological teaching of them as People of the Book (Ahl al-Kitab); his claim of final slaughter of Jews by the hands of Muslim as one of the events preceding the day of Judgement[1]; his description of them as earlier receivers of Abrahamic revelation; and the failed political alliances between the Muslim and Jewish communities. After his migration (hijra) to Medina from his home-town of Mecca, he established an agreement known as the Constitution of Medina between the major Medinan factions, including the Jewish tribes of Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, and Banu Qurayza that secured equal rights for both Jews and Muslims as long as Jews remained politically supportive. Muhammad later fought battles with these tribes on the basis of violations of the constitution. The Qur'an states that the Jews were specially chosen by God, who raised many prophets among them, blessed them and granted them favours, and held them over all other nations. Muhammad married two Jewish women, Safiyya bint Huyayy, a captive from the Banu Nadir, and Rayhana bint Zayd.
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