Skirmishes, raids and expeditions
Family: War, peace and the conduct of conflict · 17 entries
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Person
Abu Jahl (Amr ibn Hisham)
c. 570 CEThe most implacable leader of Meccan opposition to Muhammad: organizer of the boycott of Banu Hashim, persecutor of the weak converts, and the Quraysh commander killed at Badr.al-Dahhak ibn Sufyan al-Kilabi
A companion of Banu Kilab appointed sadaqa collector over his people in 9 AH; when a clan of them refused the call to Islam and fought, he led the expedition that routed them in Rabi' al-Awwal of that year.Al-Hakam ibn Kaysan
A client (mawla) of the Banu Makhzum, taken captive on the expedition of Abd Allah ibn Jahsh (Nakhla); he accepted Islam in the Prophet's presence and was killed at Bi'r Ma'una. Al-Haytham ibn Adi reports that he was a cupper by trade.al-Zibriqan ibn Badr
A Tamimi notable and poet who came among his people's ten chiefs to Medina after Uyayna's raid, declaimed boastfully against Hassan ibn Thabit and was answered; he accepted Islam and was later appointed sadaqa collector over part of Banu Sa'd.Alqama ibn Mujazziz al-Mudliji
A companion whom the Prophet sent in Rabi' al-Akhir 9 AH with three hundred men against Abyssinian raiders gathered for piracy near the Jeddah coast; he crossed the sea to their island and they fled before him.Qutba ibn Amir ibn Hadida
A Khazraji companion — one of the six Ansar who first met the Prophet at al-Aqaba and among its twelve nuqaba' — who witnessed Badr, and in Safar 9 AH commanded the twenty-man raid against a Khath'am clan near Tabala.
Event
The Expedition of Dhu Qarad (Ghazwat al-Ghaba)
c. May 628 CE · Muharram 7 AHShortly before Khaybar in 7 AH, Uyayna ibn Hisn raided the Prophet's milch camels at al-Ghaba; Salama ibn al-Akwa' pursued them alone on foot with stones and arrows, holding off the raiders until the cavalry arrived, recovering the camels.The Expedition of Dhat al-Salasil
c. October 629 CE · Jumada II 8 AHIn Jumada II 8 AH (October 629 CE), following the Battle of Mu'tah, the Prophet dispatched Amr ibn al-As with 300 men (later reinforced by 200 led by Abu Ubayda) to Dhat al-Salasil on the borders of Syria to win over and neutralize the Quda'a and Bali tribes; Amr demonstrated tactical prudence, routed the gatherings, and established Muslim authority in the northern deserts.The expedition to Awtas
c. January 630 CE · Shawwal 8 AHA detachment sent by the Prophet under Abu Amir al-Ash'ari in pursuit of the routed Hawazin remnants encamped at Awtas; Abu Amir was struck by an arrow and martyred after routing nine enemy champions, whereupon Abu Musa al-Ash'ari took the banner and secured victory.The skirmish of al-Khandama
January 630 CE · Ramadan 8 AHA sharp clash on the heights of al-Khandama where armed resisters from Quraysh and Banu Bakr under Safwan ibn Umayya, Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl, and Suhayl ibn Amr attempted to bar Khalid ibn al-Walid's entry; the resistance was quickly routed, leaving twelve to thirteen Meccan fighters dead, while Kurz ibn Jabir, Khunays ibn Khalid, and Salama ibn al-Mayla' fell on the Muslim side.The expedition to Tabuk
October 630 CE · Rajab 9 AHThe Prophet led a large expedition north toward the Byzantine frontier as far as Tabuk; no battle took place.Uyayna ibn Hisn's raid on Banu Tamim
January 631 CE · Muharram 9 AHIn Muharram 9 AH the Prophet sent Uyayna ibn Hisn al-Fazari with fifty horsemen — none Muhajirun or Ansar — against Banu Tamim, who had been inciting tribes and withholding jizya; he surprised them in the desert and took eleven men, twenty-one women and thirty children to Medina, where ten of their chiefs came for the famous oratory and poetry contest; al-Aqra' ibn Habis declared the Muslims' orator and poet superior, they accepted Islam, and their families were returned.Qutba ibn Amir's raid on Khath'am
February 631 CE · Safar 9 AHIn Safar 9 AH the Prophet sent Qutba ibn Amir ibn Hadida with twenty men on ten camels they shared in turns against a clan of Khath'am near Tabala in the Turba region; the raid met hard fighting with many wounded on both sides, and the Muslims drove cattle, captives and sheep back to Medina.Ali's expedition to destroy al-Fuls, the idol of Tayy'
March 631 CE · Rabi' I 9 AHIn Rabi' al-Awwal 9 AH the Prophet sent Ali ibn Abi Talib with one hundred and fifty men — a hundred camels and fifty horses, a black banner and a white standard — to demolish al-Fuls, the idol-temple of Tayy'; they raided Hatim's quarter at dawn, demolished it, and took captives among them Adi ibn Hatim's sister, whose appeal to the Prophet led to her release and to Adi's coming from Syria and accepting Islam.al-Dahhak ibn Sufyan's expedition to Banu Kilab
March 631 CE · Rabi' I 9 AHIn Rabi' al-Awwal 9 AH the Prophet sent al-Dahhak ibn Sufyan al-Kilabi to his own people Banu Kilab to invite them to Islam; they refused and fought, and the Muslims routed them and killed one man.Alqama ibn Mujazziz's expedition to the Jeddah coast
April 631 CE · Rabi' II 9 AHIn Rabi' al-Akhir 9 AH the Prophet sent Alqama ibn Mujazziz al-Mudliji with three hundred men against a band of Abyssinians gathered near the Jeddah coast for piracy against the people of Mecca; he crossed the sea to an island, and they fled when they heard of the Muslims' approach.The expedition of Usama ibn Zayd
c. April 632 CE · Safar 11 AHIn Safar 11 AH the Prophet equipped a great army under the young Usama ibn Zayd to strike the Byzantine marches of al-Balqa' and al-Darum in Palestine — answering the empire's killing of Muslim converts; the troops camped at al-Jurf until the Prophet's illness delayed them, and the campaign was carried out under Abu Bakr.
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