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 "id": "event/sariyya-of-abu-ubayda-to-sif-al-bahr",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "sariyya-of-abu-ubayda-to-sif-al-bahr",
 "label": {
  "ar": "سرية أبي عبيدة بن الجراح إلى سيف البحر (غزوة الخبط)",
  "en": "Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah's detachment to the sea coast (the Khabat raid)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "سرية بعثها النبي إلى سيف البحر عليها أبو عبيدة بن الجراح وزوّدهم جراباً من تمر؛ يرويها عبادة بن الصامت: قوّتهم أبو عبيدة التمر حتى صار يعطي كل رجل تمرة في اليوم، فلما جهدهم الجوع أخرج الله لهم دابة من البحر فأكلوا من لحمها وودكها عشرين ليلة حتى سمنوا، ورفع أميرهم ضلعاً من أضلاعها فمرّ تحتها أجسم رجل على أجسم بعير؛ فلما سألوا النبي عن أكلهم قال: رزق رزقكموه الله.",
  "en": "A detachment the Prophet sent to the sea coast under Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah, provisioned with a single bag of dates; Ubada ibn al-Samit tells it: Abu Ubayda rationed the dates until each man received one a day, and when hunger wore them down God brought out for them a sea creature on whose flesh and fat they lived twenty nights until they grew fat; the commander propped up one of its ribs and the tallest man on the biggest camel passed beneath it. When they asked the Prophet about having eaten it he said: a provision God provided you."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "skirmishes-raids-expeditions",
  "water-and-animals",
  "environment-and-climate"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 629.0005270470988,
  "latest": 629.999863104618
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0629~",
   "hijri": "0008~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "لا يؤرّخها ابن إسحاق؛ أصحاب المغازي يضعونها في رجب سنة 8هـ (needs_source).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0629~",
   "hijri": "0008~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "لا يؤرّخها ابن إسحاق؛ أصحاب المغازي يضعونها في رجب سنة 8هـ (needs_source).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "raid",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0629~",
    "hijri": "0008~",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "debated",
    "note": "لا يؤرّخها ابن إسحاق؛ أصحاب المغازي يضعونها في رجب سنة 8هـ (needs_source).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 p. 281",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-14"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 p. 281; distinct from event/expedition-of-sif-al-bahr (Hamza, 1 AH)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "سرية بعثها النبي إلى سيف البحر، أي ساحله، عليها [[person/abu-ubayda-ibn-al-jarrah|أبو عبيدة بن الجراح]]؛ يرويها ابن إسحاق عن عبادة بن الوليد بن عبادة بن الصامت عن أبيه عن جده [[person/ubada-ibn-al-samit|عبادة بن الصامت]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281} وهي غير [[event/expedition-of-sif-al-bahr|سرية حمزة إلى سيف البحر]] في أول الهجرة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "التمرة في اليوم",
     "markdown": "زوّدهم النبي جراباً من تمر، فجعل أبو عبيدة يقوتهم إياه حتى صار يعدّه عليهم عدّاً، ثم نفد التمر حتى كان يعطي كل رجل كل يوم تمرة؛ وقسمها يوماً فنقصت تمرة عن رجل فوجدوا فقدها ذلك اليوم. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دابة البحر",
     "markdown": "فلما جهدهم الجوع أخرج الله لهم دابة من البحر، فأصابوا من لحمها وودكها وأقاموا عليها عشرين ليلة حتى سمنوا وابتلّوا، أي أفاقوا من ألم الجوع كما يفسّره المحققون. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281} وأخذ أميرهم ضلعاً من أضلاعها فوضعها على طريقه، ثم أمر بأجسم بعير معهم فحُمل عليه أجسم رجل منهم فجلس عليه، فخرج من تحتها وما مسّت رأسه. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281} فلما قدموا على النبي أخبروه وسألوه عما صنعوا من أكلهم إياها، فقال: رزق رزقكموه الله. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "في المتحف",
     "markdown": "الخبر يُستشهد به في فقه الأطعمة: حلّ ما يُلقيه البحر ميتاً، ويرويه أصحاب الصحاح عن جابر بن عبد الله باسم «غزوة الخبط» لأنهم أكلوا ورق الشجر، وهي تسمية لا ترد عند ابن إسحاق (needs_source). ويُقرأ أيضاً في باب التقشف: جراب تمر لسرية كاملة. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "علامات الرواية",
     "markdown": "- الإسناد متصل إلى عبادة بن الصامت عن أبيه عن جده؛ لا يذكر ابن إسحاق عدد السرية ولا مقصدها ولا تاريخها. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/sariyya-of-abu-ubayda-to-sif-al-bahr",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "An expedition the Prophet sent to Sif al-Bahr, that is its coast, under [[person/abu-ubayda-ibn-al-jarrah|Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah]]. Ibn Ishaq relates it from Ubada ibn al-Walid ibn Ubada ibn al-Samit, from his father, from his grandfather [[person/ubada-ibn-al-samit|Ubada ibn al-Samit]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281} It is not the [[event/expedition-of-sif-al-bahr|expedition of Hamza to Sif al-Bahr]] at the start of the Hijra."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The date-palm a day",
     "markdown": "The Prophet provided them with a sack of dates; Abu Ubayda rationed it to them until he counted them out one by one. Then the dates ran out, until he gave each man one date each day; once he shared them out and one man was short of a date, and they found its absence that day. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The beast of the sea",
     "markdown": "When hunger overcame them, God brought out for them a creature from the sea; they ate from its flesh and fat and stayed on it for twenty nights until they grew fat and recovered, that is came out of the pain of hunger, as the editors explain. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281} Their commander took one of its ribs and set it across his road, then ordered the largest camel they had loaded with the largest of their men, who sat on it, and he passed beneath it without its head touching the rib. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281} When they came to the Prophet and told him, and asked him about what they had done in eating it, he said: a provision God gave you. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the museum",
     "markdown": "The report is cited in the jurisprudence of food: what the sea casts up dead is lawful. The Sahih collections relate it from Jabir ibn Abd Allah under the name \"the expedition of al-Khabt\", because they ate tree leaves; that name does not appear in Ibn Ishaq (needs_source). It is also read in the chapter on asceticism: one sack of dates for a whole expedition. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Marks of the report",
     "markdown": "- The chain runs continuously to Ubada ibn al-Samit from his father from his grandfather; Ibn Ishaq gives neither the number of the expedition nor its purpose nor its date. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/281}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/sariyya-of-abu-ubayda-to-sif-al-bahr",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "event/battle-of-badr",
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  "event/conquest-of-mecca",
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