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...r positions to join the collection of spoils. Khalid ibn al-Walid, commanding the Qurayshi cavalry, saw the exposed pass and...
... Qurayshi opposition could now engage freely. Khalid ibn al-Walid and Amr ibn al-As, two of the Quraysh's greatest commander...
...y had been opposing. Among those watching was Khalid ibn al-Walid, who later said this experience contributed to his eventua...
...ore dramatic in its implications than that of Khalid ibn al-Walid. At the Battle of Uhud, it was Khalid's tactical reading o...
...ed in turn. The standard passed informally to Khalid ibn al-Walid, who had been in Islam for perhaps four months. Khalid re...
...rophet after the death of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Khalid ibn al-Walid led the Muslim force north from Medina and routed Tulayha'...
...hood among the Banu Hanifa in central Arabia. Khalid ibn al-Walid commanded a Muslim force against an army of approximately ...
...ught on the banks of the Euphrates as part of Khalid ibn al-Walid's Iraqi campaign. A combined Persian and Arab Christian fo...
...significant engagement in southern Iraq where Khalid ibn al-Walid executed one of his famous double-envelopment manoeuvres. ...
...fied Muslim army and a large Byzantine force. Khalid ibn al-Walid had made his legendary march from Iraq to Syria to take co...
... lasted several months as Muslim forces under Khalid ibn al-Walid and Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah encircled the ancient city. V...
...0–40,000 under Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah, with Khalid ibn al-Walid commanding the mobile reserve. After six days of battle, t...
...vernors throughout the empire to treat non-Arab converts (mawali) with full equality as Muslims, cutting the discriminatory ...
...as enormously popular among the non-Arab Muslim converts (mawali) of Persia and Khurasan who had faced continued taxation de...
... operating out of Khurasan that drew its support from the mawali (non-Arab converts) of Persia and Khurasan — communities th...
...hers who reimposed taxes on converts and refused to treat mawali as equal Muslims deepened resentment. Governors like Nasr i...
...s, violating the Prophet's ﷺ explicit orders. Khalid ibn al-Walid, then fighting for the Quraysh, exploited the gap to flank...
... fell as martyrs in battle. Command passed to Khalid ibn al-Walid, who had only recently embraced Islam. Through brilliant t...
...hethood and gathered a substantial following. Khalid ibn al-Walid, dispatched by Abu Bakr, confronted Tulayha at Buzakha. De...
...ful Banu Hanifa tribe. The Muslim force under Khalid ibn al-Walid initially struggled against the determined resistance; the...
...t of Iraq against the Sasanid Persian Empire. Khalid ibn al-Walid's force of approximately 18,000 faced a combined Persian a...
...25,000 to 40,000 and was commanded overall by Khalid ibn al-Walid, who had been redeployed from Iraq at great speed. Over si...
...uslim armies that had been probing Palestine. Khalid ibn al-Walid, after his extraordinary march across the Syrian desert, j...
...mascus was besieged from multiple sides, with Khalid ibn al-Walid and Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah commanding different sectors....
...quest of Iraq in 12 AH / 633 CE, commanded by Khalid ibn al-Walid. The battle is named after the Persian practice of chainin...
...alaja was fought in 12 AH / 633 CE as part of Khalid ibn al-Walid's campaign through southern Iraq. The Persians assembled a...
...e Battle of Ullais was fought in 12 AH during Khalid ibn al-Walid's Iraq campaign. Facing a large combined Persian and Arab ...
... in 13 AH / 634 CE. Following the transfer of Khalid ibn al-Walid to Syria, the Muslims sent Abu Ubayd ibn Masud al-Thaqafi ...
... of the Safflower). The Muslims, commanded by Khalid ibn al-Walid, engaged and defeated the Byzantines again. The battle was...
Caliph al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik completed the Great Mosque of Damascus, o...
Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Rushd, the great Andalusian philosopher, juri...
Shah Waliullah ad-Dehlawi, one of the greatest scholars of the Indian...
Shah Waliullah of Delhi, one of the most influential Islamic scholars...
Called Sayf Allah (Sword of Allah) by the Prophet, one of the greatest military commanders in history.
The most influential scholar of the Indian subcontinent, translator of the Quran into Persian.
Sindhi hadith scholar based in Medina who taught Shah Waliullah Dehlawi and Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab, influencing maj...
Wealthy and influential Qurayshi leader whose arrogant rejection of the Quran is directly addressed and rebuked in Surah al-Muddaththir (74:11-26).
A powerful Meccan elder who was directly addressed in the Quran (Surah al-Muddaththir) for his arrogant rejection of the Quran after privately acknowledging it
...e Riddah against Abu Bakr. He was defeated by Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of Buzakha. He then genuinely converted to I...
...lima and the conquest of Iraq and Syria under Khalid ibn al-Walid.
...tiated the Iraq campaign. He fought alongside Khalid ibn al-Walid and continued after Khalid's transfer to Syria, though was...
...n commander encountered by the Muslim forces. Khalid ibn al-Walid defeated and killed him at the Battle of Dhat al-Salasil (...
... and the East under the Umayyad caliphs Abd al-Malik and al-Walid (d. 95 AH / 714 CE). Known for his iron-fisted administrat...
A companion and half-brother of Uthman ibn Affan. He served as governor of Kufa under Uthman. Known as the subject of Surah al-Hujurat (49:6) — 'O you who belie
The sixth Umayyad caliph (r. 86-96 AH / 705-715 CE), considered the pinnacle of Umayyad power. His reign saw the construction of the Great Mosque of Damascus (t
Foremost Islamic scholar of the Indian subcontinent; synthesizer of the four madhabs and author of Hujjat Allah al-Balighah.
The greatest Islamic scholar of the Indian subcontinent. Author of Hujjat Allah al-Balighah, a landmark work reconciling the four madhabs through hadith.
...nditions, rights and obligations, mahr, and the role of the wali.
The military genius who never lost a battle, from his early opposition to Islam to becoming the most celebrated Muslim commander.
...ights within the nikah contract, including mahr, witnesses, wali, and the couple's mutual obligations.
The essential elements, conditions, and proper form of the nikah contract according to the four schools of jurisprudence.
...an, who qualifies, the scholarly differences on whether the wali is a condition of a valid marriage, and the rights of the b...
The Sunnah of publicizing marriage, the walimah feast, its rulings, recommended practices, and common in...
...ntine Empire that opened the Levant to Islam, Khalid ibn al-Walid's strategy, and the role of women in the battle.
The Quranic command to show excellence toward parents, placed immediately after the command to worship Allah alone, and its practical applications.