Nope these are all fake stories

Will discuss one (Abu Afak) in this https://twitter.com/Nitin_Rivaldo/status/1293481937751875584

Abu Afak was allegedly an Old Jewish Poet who resided in Madinah during the Prophet's minstry. Abu Afak allegedly wrote a poem making fun of Prophet Muhammad and the Early Muslims. The Prophet heard of these verses and told someone to kill Abu Afak. [1]

Salim Ibn Umayr allegedly went forward and killed Abu Afak with a blade (Ibn Ishaq page 675).

the chain of reporters of the story from eye-witnesses of the event till Ibn Ishâq or Al-Waqîdî must be examined and verified. So,

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our legitimate question is: where is the isnâd (i.e., chain of reporters)? There is NO isnad for this story.

Unfortunately, references of the Sîrah do not provide such information.
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we are told that this story has no isnâd at all; neither Ibn Ishâq (or his disciple Ibn Hîsham) nor Al-Waqîdî (or his disciple Ibn Sa'd) had provided such a thing! In this case, the story is rated by hadîth scholars as "...of no basis",

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indicating that it has reached the lowest degree of criticism regarding its isnâd. This is a proper scientific position because we cannot accept such a problematic story without evidence.

In brief,

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we have no reason to accept such a baseless story - according to scientific criteria of hadîth criticism - which strangely had appeared in the 2nd half of the 2nd century after Hijra.
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We are therefore obliged to reject the story of the killing of Abu 'Afak by Salîm Ibn 'Umaîr at the Prophet’s command. So again this story is 100% FALSE and FICTIONAL. Again this story is never found in the hadith literature.

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We also have some scholars

Cherag Ali

ABU AFAK
It is related that Abu Afak of Bani Amr had enraged the Moslems by fomenting enmity and sedition against their Government,

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when one Haris was executed for his murdering treacherously his fellow-comrade in the battle of Ohad during the time they were fighting together side by side. A convert from amongst the Bani Amr vowed to slay Abu Afak,

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and falling unawares upon him killed him with a cruel blow of his word. From Ibn Ishak we learn that Mohammad had said with reference to Abu Afak, ‘Who would rid me of this pestilent fellow?'

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The biographers do not give their authorities whence they derived their information of the words attributed to Mohammad which he is said to have uttered with relation to Abu Afak before his followers; while at the same time it is no fair justice to form a hasty opinion 

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of the fact without a critical examination and well-balancing of evidences of men like Ibn Ishak and others who have forgotten to tell us the original sources of their own assertion. Besides, the words quoted above are not equivalent to a peremptory order,

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and even granting this last condition, we are not justified in constructing them to mean assassination. Sir W. Muir writes that, ‘the secretary of Wackidi says distinctly-‘Now this was by command of the Prophet.’ (Vol. III, p. 133, f.n.).

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But it is a very easy thing for the secretary or other biographers to give an ample play to their fancies, or to fabricate commands, which the Prophet had never given out, on a very slender basis, or on no reasonable basis at all.

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The tendency of the biographers is always to exonerate the companions of the Prophet at the expense of truth, and to justify their deeds by casting the whole blame upon him.” (A Critical Exposition of the Popular Jihad (Original 1885) by Cherag Ali Page 64 – 65)

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Also another scholar

Maulana Muhammad Ali:

ABU AFAK
"The next incident related… is that… to the alleged assassination of Abu Afak, ‘an aged Jewish proselyte, whose offence was similar to that of Asma.'

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We have no hesitation in calling this story as baseless a fabrication as that relating to the murder of Asma. Our reason for doing this is that the interdiction against the murder of women also included two other classes, viz., children and old men. [17]

It is true that the saying of the Prophet in the Bukhari mentions only women and children, and not aged persons, but there is a hadith in Abu Dawud (ch. Du’a al-Mushrikin) reported by Anas, son of Malik,

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according to which the Holy Prophet said: ‘Do not kill an aged person, nor a child, nor a minor, nor a woman.’ That the Prophet expressly forbade the killing of old men appears also from the directions given by Abu Bakr, the first Caliph, to Yazid, son of Abu Sufyan,

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when he sent him in command of an army to Syria. In the directions given to him the following relates to our subject: ‘Do not kill children, nor women, nor old men.’ (Fath al-Qadir, vol V, p.202.) [20]

It is clear that Abu Bakr could give such directions only on the authority of the Holy Prophet. Hence there was an interdiction against the killing of old men as there was against the killing of women.
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And it is impossible, we repeat, that the Holy Prophet should have given such clear injunctions and then himself ordered the killing of ‘an aged Jewish proselyte,’ as Abu Afak is said to have been, and for no offence but that he composed some annoying verses......"

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