{
 "id": "event/expedition-of-rabigh",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "expedition-of-rabigh",
 "label": {
  "en": "Expedition of Rabigh",
  "ar": "سرية رابغ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "An expedition led by Ubayda ibn al-Harith in Shawwal 1 AH with 60 Muhajirun; witnessed the first arrow shot in Islam by Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas and the defection of al-Miqdad and Utba ibn Ghazwan to the Muslims.",
  "ar": "سرية قادها عبيدة بن الحارث بن المطلب في ستين راكباً من المهاجرين في شوال 1هـ ببطن رابغ؛ شهدت رمي أول سهم في الإسلام بسهم سعد بن أبي وقاص وانحياز المقداد بن عمرو وعتبة بن غزوان إلى المسلمين."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time",
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "battles"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 623.2454465184089,
  "latest": 623.3275837285869
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0623-04~",
   "hijri": "0001-10",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "في شوال سنة 1هـ (أبريل 623م) على ما في الرحيق ص198"
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0623-04~",
   "hijri": "0001-10",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "في شوال سنة 1هـ (أبريل 623م) على ما في الرحيق ص198"
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "skirmish",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0623-04~",
    "hijri": "0001-10",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "في شوال سنة 1هـ (أبريل 623م) على ما في الرحيق ص198"
   }
  },
  "sides": [
   {
    "label": {
     "en": "Muslim expedition",
     "ar": "سرية المسلمين"
    },
    "participants": [
     "group/muhajirun"
    ],
    "commanders": [
     "person/ubayda-ibn-al-harith"
    ],
    "strength": {
     "value": 60,
     "status": "tradition",
     "note": "ستون راكباً من المهاجرين",
     "sources": [
      "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
     ]
    }
   },
   {
    "label": {
     "en": "Meccan force",
     "ar": "جيش مكة"
    },
    "participants": [
     "group/quraysh"
    ],
    "commanders": [
     "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb"
    ],
    "strength": {
     "value": 200,
     "status": "tradition",
     "note": "مائتا راكب من قريش",
     "sources": [
      "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
     ]
    }
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/zad-al-maad",
   "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Antigravity; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum p. 198"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بعث النبي في شوال سنة 1هـ (أبريل 623م) سرية ثانية بقيادة ابن عمه [[person/ubayda-ibn-al-harith|عبيدة بن الحارث بن المطلب]] في ستين راكباً من [[group/muhajirun|المهاجرين]]، فلقوا جمعاً لقريش ببطن [[place/rabigh|رابغ]]. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.198}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اللقاء والرمي",
     "markdown": "كان لواء السرية أبيض حمله [[person/mistah-ibn-uthatha|مسطح بن أثاثة]]، وكان على قريش [[person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb|أبو سفيان صخر بن حرب]] (وقيل عكرمة بن أبي جهل) في مائتي راكب. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.198} {cite:zad-al-maad 2/84}\n\nترامى الفريقان بالنبل ولم يسلوا السيوف، ورمى [[person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas|سعد بن أبي وقاص]] المشركين بسهم فكان أول سهم رُمي به في سبيل الله في الإسلام. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.198}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "انحياز الصحابيين",
     "markdown": "شهدت السرية انضمام صحابيين كانا قد خرجا مع جيش مكة توصلاً للهرب: [[person/al-miqdad-ibn-amr|المقداد بن عمرو البهراني]] و[[person/utba-ibn-ghazwan|عتبة بن غزوان المازني]]، فانحازا إلى المسلمين وعادا معهم إلى المدينة. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.198} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/597}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/expedition-of-rabigh",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "In Shawwal 1 AH (April 623 CE) the Prophet sent a second detachment under his cousin [[person/ubayda-ibn-al-harith|Ubayda ibn al-Harith ibn al-Muttalib]] with sixty riders of the [[group/muhajirun|Muhajirun]]; they met a company of Quraysh at Batn [[place/rabigh|Rabigh]]. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 198}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The encounter and the shooting",
     "markdown": "The detachment's banner was white, carried by [[person/mistah-ibn-uthatha|Mistah ibn Uthatha]]; over Quraysh was [[person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb|Abu Sufyan Sakhr ibn Harb]] (or, it is said, Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl) with two hundred riders. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 198} {cite:zad-al-maad 2/84}\n\nThe two sides exchanged arrows without drawing swords; [[person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas|Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas]] shot the polytheists with an arrow — the first arrow shot in God's cause in Islam. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 198}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The two Companions' defection",
     "markdown": "The detachment witnessed the joining of two Companions who had come out with Mecca's army as a means of escape: [[person/al-miqdad-ibn-amr|al-Miqdad ibn Amr al-Bahrani]] and [[person/utba-ibn-ghazwan|Utba ibn Ghazwan al-Mazini]] crossed over to the Muslims and returned with them to Medina. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 198} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/597}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/expedition-of-rabigh",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 20,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/rabigh",
   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ubayda-ibn-al-harith",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "أمير السرية",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "رامي أول سهم في الإسلام",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/zad-al-maad"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/al-miqdad-ibn-amr",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "انحاز من صف المشركين إلى المسلمين",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/utba-ibn-ghazwan",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "انحاز من صف المشركين إلى المسلمين",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mistah-ibn-uthatha",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "حامل اللواء الأبيض",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "قائد قافلة قريش",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "group/muhajirun",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "group/quraysh",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "period/prophetic-era",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/battle-of-badr",
  "event/expedition-of-nakhla",
  "place/mecca",
  "event/battle-of-uhud",
  "event/expedition-of-al-kharrar",
  "event/expedition-of-al-sawiq",
  "event/expedition-of-buwat",
  "group/muhajirun"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}