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The expedition of Hamza to Sayf al-Bahr

سرية حمزة إلى سيف البحر

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Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Overview

The Prophet sent Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib (may God be pleased with him) in Ramadan of the 1st year AH, with thirty men of the emigrants, to intercept a Quraysh caravan that had come from Syria. They reached the seashore at Sayf, on the side of al-Is 1.

The encounter

Hamza met the caravan, which had Abu Jahl with it, and three hundred men. Majdi ibn Amr came between the two groups, and so they did not fight 1.

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The Prophetic Era

People and things also explored

Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone· Abu Talib gathers Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib· The Prophet's address to the Ansar at al-Ji'rana· The three years of the secret call· Ali's expedition to destroy al-Fuls, the idol of Tayy'· Ali ibn Abi Talib's expeditions to Yemen (twice)· The Mission of Abu Rafi' (Sallam ibn Abi al-Huqayq)· After Badr: the dead, the captives, the spoils, and the news in Mecca and Medina

Sources

  1. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, p.197
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