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53 BH Foster Care with Halimah al-Sa'diyyah

... decades later when she was brought as a prisoner after the Battle of Hunayn and whom he honored with his cloak and interceded...

34 BH War of Fijar (Sacrilegious War)

...tic biography lies in what they produced rather than in the battles themselves. The willingness of Arabs to violate the sacred...

4 BH Return to Mecca under the Protection of Mutim ibn Adi

...ophet ﷺ alone. Mut'im was a polytheist and died before the Battle of Badr, never having accepted Islam. At Badr, when the Pro...

Sha'ban, 2 AH Fasting of Ramadan Prescribed

... Ramadan of Badr. The Muslim force that fought the defining battle of the early Islamic period on the seventeenth of Ramadan w...

Sha'ban, 2 AH Death of Uthman ibn Maz'un

...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...

17 Ramadan, 2 AH Battle of Badr

The Battle of Badr — fought on the seventeenth of Ramadan, 2 AH (March...

Ramadan, 2 AH Death of Ruqayyah, Daughter of the Prophet

...ound caused by a rooster. In 2 AH — around the time of the Battle of Badr — Ruqayyah fell gravely ill. The Prophet ﷺ instruct...

7 Shawwal, 3 AH Battle of Uhud

The Battle of Uhud was fought on the seventh of Shawwal 3 AH on the sl...

7 Shawwal, 3 AH Martyrdom of Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib at Uhud

..., 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...

8 Shawwal, 3 AH Expedition of Hamra al-Asad

The day after the Battle of Uhud — with seventy companions dead, many wounded, and t...

Rabi al-Awwal, 4 AH Expulsion of Banu Nadir

...aybar, where they would continue their opposition until the Battle of Khaybar in 7 AH. Their property — orchards, houses, sto...

Safar, 4 AH The Massacre of Bir Ma'unah

... of life the Muslim community sustained outside of a formal battle. Abu Bara' Amir ibn Malik, a prominent chief of the Banu Am...

Sha'ban, 5 AH Battle of Banu al-Mustaliq (al-Muraysi')

...es was Juwayriyah bint al-Harith, the chief's daughter. The battle itself was brief. But three subsequent events on the expedi...

Shawwal, 5 AH Battle of the Trench (Khandaq)

The Battle of the Trench (al-Khandaq) in Shawwal 5 AH was the most dan...

Dhul-Qi'dah, 5 AH Siege of Banu Qurayza

..., broke their covenant with the Muslim community during the Battle of the Trench (5 AH) by negotiating with the 10,000-strong ...

Dhul-Qi'dah, 5 AH Death of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh

... the Ansar — died in 5 AH from a wound sustained during the Battle of the Trench: an arrow struck his brachial artery while he...

Dhul-Qi'dah, 6 AH Bay'at al-Ridwan (Pledge Under the Tree)

... 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...

Muharram, 7 AH Battle of Khaybar

...t its attention further: toward the Byzantine frontier (the Battle of Mutah followed within a year), toward Mecca (the Conques...

7 AH Return of the Abyssinian Emigrants

...hile the Muslim community in Arabia fought its foundational battles at Badr, Uhud, and the Trench. The principal return of th...

Safar, 8 AH Khalid ibn al-Walid Accepts Islam

...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...

Jumada al-Ula, 8 AH Battle of Mu'tah

The Battle of Mutah — fought in Jumada al-Ula 8 AH at the Syrian front...

Shawwal, 8 AH Battle of Hunayn

The Battle of Hunayn in Shawwal 8 AH — just weeks after the Conquest o...

Shawwal, 8 AH Siege of Ta'if

After the Battle of Hunayn routed the Hawazin-Thaqif confederacy, the Thaqif...

Dhul-Qi'dah, 8 AH Distribution of Hunayn Spoils at Ji'ranah

The Battle of Hunayn yielded an enormous haul: approximately 24,000 ca...

Rajab, 9 AH Expedition to Tabuk

...uslim community's presence to the Syrian frontier without a battle — a strategic outcome of lasting consequence. The moral re...

9 AH Year of Delegations (Am al-Wufud)

...ibute, or accept Islam. After the Conquest of Mecca and the Battle of Hunayn had removed the last major military obstacles to ...

Ramadan, 9 AH Delegation of Thaqif and Acceptance of Islam by Ta'if

...the last major holdouts after the Conquest of Mecca and the Battle of Hunayn. They had withstood the Muslim siege of Taif in S...

Sha'ban, 9 AH Death of Umm Kulthum, Daughter of the Prophet

...through her illness at the Prophet's ﷺ command, missing the Battle of Badr. The Prophet ﷺ assured Uthman he would receive Badr...