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...rd the Ka'bah; when his handlers turned him toward Yemen or Syria he moved readily, but toward the Ka'bah he sat and would no...
...or a trading journey to Gaza and the Bilad al-Sham (Greater Syria) shortly after his marriage to Aminah — some narrations pla...
...d from her that illuminated the distant palaces of Busra in Syria. Classical historians record that fourteen pillars of the P...
...ars old, he traveled north with a Meccan trading caravan to Syria (Bilad al-Sham) — accompanying his uncle and guardian Abu T...
...nt Munabbih with a business proposition: would he travel to Syria with her trade goods, representing her interests in the nor...
...t's character through his conduct of her trading caravan to Syria and through her servant Maysarah's detailed report. The mah...
...ceived intelligence about a Qurayshi caravan returning from Syria — 1,000 camels loaded with trade goods, led by Abu Sufyan. ...
The Battle of Mutah — fought in Jumada al-Ula 8 AH at the Syrian frontier — was the first direct military confrontation bet...
...nce that the Byzantine Empire was assembling an army at the Syrian frontier to strike the Muslim community. The timing could ...
...stive. Tribes came from Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, the Najd, the Syrian frontier, and every region of Arabia. Some came as a forma...
...Usamah ibn Zayd ibn Haritha to command an expedition to the Syrian frontier near Mu'tah, the site of his father Zayd's martyr...