Muslim deployment at Uhud and the archers' post
تعبئة الجيش الإسلامي عند أحد وتعيين فصيلة الرماة
23 March 625 CE · 7 Shawwal 3 AH
Mount Uhud → Jabal al-Rumma (Archers' Hill / Jabal Aynayn)
The Prophet halted with seven hundred fighters in the gorge of Mount Uhud, facing Medina with his back to the mountain — the best position on the field. He picked fifty skilled archers under Abdullah ibn Jubayr ibn al-Nu'man al-Ansari al-Awsi and posted them on a small hill southeast of the camp known as the Archers' Hill, ordering them not to leave their position in victory or defeat, and told their commander: 'keep the cavalry off us with your arrows so they cannot come at us from behind.' He put al-Mundhir ibn Amr on the right wing and al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam on the left, supported by al-Miqdad {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.255}.
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- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
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People and things also explored
The Battle of BadrThe Battle of UhudBattle over the Quraysh standard at UhudBurial of the Uhud martyrsDefense of the Prophet at UhudKhalid's flanking manoeuvre at UhudMuslim withdrawal to the mountain pass at UhudThe early Muslim community
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
- Sahih al-Bukhari
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islam.museum contributors. “Muslim deployment at Uhud and the archers' post”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/uhud-deployment/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.