nadhirites

Updated: August 8, 2026

But their riches were confiscated, their arms became more effectual in the hands of the Mussulmans; and a wretched colony of seven hundred exiles was driven, with their wives and children, to implore a refuge on the confines of Syria. The Nadhirites were more guilty, since they conspired, in a friendly interview, to assassinate the prophet.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5