Muslim withdrawal to the mountain pass at Uhud
الانسحاب المنظم إلى شعب الجبل في أحد
23 March 625 CE · 7 Shawwal 3 AH
When about thirty Companions had gathered around the Prophet he began an orderly withdrawal into the mountain gorge, cutting a path through the attacking polytheists. During the retreat he killed Ubayy ibn Khalaf with his own hand. The polytheists made a last attempt to climb the mountain under Abu Sufyan and Khalid, and Umar and a party of the Muhajirun fought until they drove them down. The Messenger of God settled in the gorge, where Fatima washed his wound and cauterised it with a burnt mat to stop the bleeding. Muhammad ibn Maslama brought fresh water from which the Prophet drank and prayed for him; he prayed the noon prayer sitting, from the effect of his wounds {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.278}.
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- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
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Connections
- Occurred at
- Mount Uhud
- Part of
- The Battle of Uhud
- Had participant
- MuhammadTalha ibn UbaydullahUmar ibn al-KhattabUbayy ibn KhalafAli ibn Abi TalibKa'b ibn Malik al-Ansari
People and things also explored
The Battle of BadrBattle over the Quraysh standard at UhudDefense of the Prophet at UhudThe Battle of UhudBurial of the Uhud martyrsMuslim deployment at Uhud and the archers' postQurayshMus'ab ibn Umayr
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 withdrawal to the mountain pass at Uhud”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/uhud-withdrawal-to-shib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.