الشوط

al-Shawt: a place near Medina, between it and Uhud, on the road out to Uhud. People of the Ansar lived there, and in it is a fortified tower known as al-Shar'i. ¹

At al-Shawt, Abd Allah ibn Ubayy withdrew with about a third of the army on the day of Uhud, according to al-Samhudi and Ibn Hisham. ^{2 3}

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