The Fijar war
حرب الفجار
c. 586 CE
The sacrilegious war between Quraysh and Kinana on one side and Qays 'Aylan on the other, so named because it violated the sanctity of the sanctuary and the sacred months; the fifteen-year-old Muhammad attended, readying arrows for his uncles.
Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Sides
Qays 'Aylan
Connections
- Had participant
- Harb ibn UmayyaMuhammad
- Occurred at
- Mecca
- Led to
- Hilf al-Fudul (the pact of the virtuous)
- Part of
- The Prophetic Era
People and things also explored
Hilf al-Fudul (the pact of the virtuous)The three years of the secret callThe Battle of HunaynThe Pledge of the Tree (Bay'at al-Ridwan)The boycott of the Banu HashimThe Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)The call to the nearest kinThe Expedition of Banu al-Mustaliq (al-Muraysi')
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Fijar war”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/harb-al-fijar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.