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... decades later when she was brought as a prisoner after the Battle of Hunayn and whom he honored with his cloak and interceded...
...tic biography lies in what they produced rather than in the battles themselves. The willingness of Arabs to violate the sacred...
...ophet ﷺ alone. Mut'im was a polytheist and died before the Battle of Badr, never having accepted Islam. At Badr, when the Pro...
... Ramadan of Badr. The Muslim force that fought the defining battle of the early Islamic period on the seventeenth of Ramadan w...
...nd had made the Hijra to Medina. He died of illness, not in battle — the first death of the Medinan community before the era o...
The Battle of Badr — fought on the seventeenth of Ramadan, 2 AH (March...
...ound caused by a rooster. In 2 AH — around the time of the Battle of Badr — Ruqayyah fell gravely ill. The Prophet ﷺ instruct...
The Battle of Uhud was fought on the seventh of Shawwal 3 AH on the sl...
..., the greatest warrior of early Islam — was martyred at the Battle of Uhud in 3 AH by a javelin thrown by Wahshi ibn Harb. Wah...
The day after the Battle of Uhud — with seventy companions dead, many wounded, and t...
...aybar, where they would continue their opposition until the Battle of Khaybar in 7 AH. Their property — orchards, houses, sto...
... of life the Muslim community sustained outside of a formal battle. Abu Bara' Amir ibn Malik, a prominent chief of the Banu Am...
...es was Juwayriyah bint al-Harith, the chief's daughter. The battle itself was brief. But three subsequent events on the expedi...
The Battle of the Trench (al-Khandaq) in Shawwal 5 AH was the most dan...
..., broke their covenant with the Muslim community during the Battle of the Trench (5 AH) by negotiating with the 10,000-strong ...
... the Ansar — died in 5 AH from a wound sustained during the Battle of the Trench: an arrow struck his brachial artery while he...
... to stand with him and not flee, even in the expectation of battle to the death. When it was time for Uthman's own pledge, the...
...t its attention further: toward the Byzantine frontier (the Battle of Mutah followed within a year), toward Mecca (the Conques...
...hile the Muslim community in Arabia fought its foundational battles at Badr, Uhud, and the Trench. The principal return of th...
...n its implications than that of Khalid ibn al-Walid. At the Battle of Uhud, it was Khalid's tactical reading of the exposed pa...
The Battle of Mutah — fought in Jumada al-Ula 8 AH at the Syrian front...
The Battle of Hunayn in Shawwal 8 AH — just weeks after the Conquest o...
After the Battle of Hunayn routed the Hawazin-Thaqif confederacy, the Thaqif...
The Battle of Hunayn yielded an enormous haul: approximately 24,000 ca...
...uslim community's presence to the Syrian frontier without a battle — a strategic outcome of lasting consequence. The moral re...
...ibute, or accept Islam. After the Conquest of Mecca and the Battle of Hunayn had removed the last major military obstacles to ...
...the last major holdouts after the Conquest of Mecca and the Battle of Hunayn. They had withstood the Muslim siege of Taif in S...
...through her illness at the Prophet's ﷺ command, missing the Battle of Badr. The Prophet ﷺ assured Uthman he would receive Badr...