Nitraria

Nitraria
Nitraria billardierei in St Kilda, South Australia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Nitrariaceae
Genus:	Nitraria L.
Species
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Nitraria, known as the nitre bushes, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Nitrariaceae, native to Africa, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia.

There are about 9 species including:

• Nitraria billardierei DC., known as nitre bush or dillon bush
• Nitraria retusa (Forssk.) Asch.
• Nitraria schoberi L.
• Nitraria sibirica Pall.

Nitraria in Islam

Nitraria was mentioned in the Noble Prophet's Sunnah as a Jewish tree, it was also named because, as stated in the honorable hadith about Abū Hurayra ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr al-Dawsī al-Zahrānī heard the Messenger of Allah Mohmmed (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said:

The hour does not rise until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them until the Jew hides from behind the stone and the trees, so the stone and the trees say, O Muslim, O Abdullah, this is a Jew behind me, so come and kill him except the Nitraria , for it is from the trees of the Jews

References

• "Genus Nitraria". PlantNET — New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
• "Nitraria L." Atlas of Living Australia. Archived from the original on 2018-06-26. Retrieved 2017-12-23.