The Day of al-Radm between Murad and Hamdan

A battle between Murad and Hamdan shortly before Islam, in which Hamdan inflicted on Murad what they wished, until they had wounded them grievously, on a day called the Day of al-Radm. ¹

Ibn Ishaq says that the man who led Hamdan against Murad that day was al-Ajda' ibn Malik. Ibn Hisham says rather that it was Malik ibn Harim al-Hamdani. ¹

Farwa ibn Musayk al-Muradi composed his poem on that day, in which he says that if his people win, they have always been victors, and if they are defeated, they are not defeated for good; that fortune turns by turns; and that if kings were to live forever, they would have lived forever. See the poems of Farwa ibn Musayk. ^{1 2}

When Farwa came to the Prophet, the Prophet asked him: "Did it grieve you what befell your people on the day of al-Radm?" Farwa said: "Who would be struck as my people were struck on the day of al-Radm and not be grieved!" The Prophet said: "That has only added to your people's good in Islam." ²

"Uthkhanuhum" means they inflicted much killing and wounding on them. "Lufat", a place in the lands of Murad in the verses of Farwa, is in Yaqut's account a place; in al-Bakri's account it is a place between Mecca and Medina, with the first letter vowelled with a kasra. ¹