Are you referring to caliph Omar? I have heard many different stories and reasons but the moslims looting and burying what they took, I have not heard. The version I heard was of him saying it’s inconsequential what’s in there so therefore destroy it. The story of the moslims being the reason always seemed implausible to me because of the timeframe that story was created, that always seemed suspect to me and the guy who started that story was biased to moslims, as well.

Are you referring to caliph Omar? I have heard many different stories and reasons but the moslims looting and burying what they took, I have not heard. The version I heard was of him saying it’s inconsequential what’s in there so therefore destroy it. The story of the moslims being the reason always seemed implausible to me because of the timeframe that story was created, was suspect to me and the guy who started it was biased to moslims, as well.