Mu'tah
مؤتة
Village in southern Jordan, near which the Muslims fought a Byzantine-led force in 629 CE.
Depth
At a glance
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- GeoNames
- Review
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Connections
- Place of death of
- Abbad ibn QaysAbd Allah ibn Rawahaal-Harith ibn al-Nu'man ibn UsafJa'far ibn Abi TalibMas'ud ibn al-Aswad ibn HarithaSuraqa ibn Amr ibn AtiyyaWahb ibn Sa'd ibn Abi SarhZayd ibn Haritha
- Site of
- The Battle of Mu'tahKhalid ibn al-Walid's command and the army's withdrawalMartyrdom of Abd Allah ibn Rawaha after his hesitationMartyrdom of Ja'far ibn Abi Talib and his hamstringing of his horseMartyrdom of Zayd ibn Haritha as first commander
People and things also explored
The Battle of Mu'tahDispatch of the Mu'tah armyThe AnsarThe early Muslim communityHassan ibn Thabit's elegies for the Mu'tah martyrsKa'b ibn Malik's elegy for the Mu'tah martyrsMartyrdom of Abd Allah ibn Rawaha after his hesitationMartyrdom of Ja'far ibn Abi Talib and his hamstringing of his horse
Sources
- GeoNames gazetteer
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Mu'tah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/mutah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.