{
 "id": "event/battle-of-mutah",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "battle-of-mutah",
 "label": {
  "en": "The Battle of Mu'tah",
  "ar": "غزوة مؤتة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A Muslim force sent north toward the Byzantine frontier met a larger Byzantine-led army at Mu'tah; after its first three commanders fell, Khalid ibn al-Walid led the survivors back.",
  "ar": "التقى جيش مسلم أُرسل نحو الحدود البيزنطية بجيش بيزنطي أكبر عند مؤتة؛ وبعد استشهاد قادته الثلاثة الأوائل قاد خالد بن الوليد الناجين عائدين."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time",
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "battles"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 629.6658384497971,
  "latest": 629.747975659975
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0629-09",
   "hijri": "0008-05",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "The outcome is described differently in the sources: some call it a withdrawal, others a defeat or a draw."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0629-09",
   "hijri": "0008-05",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "The outcome is described differently in the sources: some call it a withdrawal, others a defeat or a draw."
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "battle",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0629-09",
    "hijri": "0008-05",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "The outcome is described differently in the sources: some call it a withdrawal, others a defeat or a draw."
   }
  },
  "sides": [
   {
    "label": {
     "en": "Muslim force sent from Medina",
     "ar": "قوة المسلمين الموجَّهة من المدينة"
    },
    "participants": [
     "group/early-muslims"
    ],
    "commanders": [
     "person/zayd-ibn-haritha",
     "person/jafar-ibn-abi-talib",
     "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid"
    ]
   },
   {
    "label": {
     "en": "Byzantine forces and their Arab allies",
     "ar": "القوات البيزنطية وحلفاؤها من العرب"
    }
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/watt-1956-medina",
   "source/lings-1983"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; dates follow the cited tradition and are approximate where marked"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 10,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/jafar-ibn-abi-talib",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "second-commander",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "third-commander",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/zayd-ibn-haritha",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "commander-killed",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "place/mutah",
   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "period/prophetic-era",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "group/early-muslims",
  "place/mutah",
  "event/battle-of-badr",
  "event/battle-of-hunayn",
  "event/battle-of-uhud",
  "event/al-dawa-al-sirriyya",
  "event/conquest-of-mecca",
  "event/first-migration-to-abyssinia"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}