| Battle of Uhud | | Part of the Muslim-Quraysh Wars |
| | | | Combatants | | Muslims | Quraysh-led Coalition | | Commanders | | Muhammad | Abu Sufyan | | Strength | | 700 | 3,000 | | Casualties | | 70 dead | 22 | The Battle of Uhud was fought on 23 March, 625, between a force from the small Muslim community of Medina, in what is now north-western Arabia, and a force from Mecca, the town from which many of the Muslims had emigrated (see Hijra). Uhud is near Medina. The Muslims had the worst of the encounter and retired after having lost some seventy-five men. However, the Meccans did not pursue the Muslims into Medina, but marched back to Mecca. A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ...
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Muhammad (Arabic ; also Mohammed, Mohamet, and other variants[1] [2] [3]), 570-632 C.E.,[4] [5] was an Arab religious and political leader who established Islam and the Muslim community (Ummah, Arabic: أمة) to whom he preached. ...
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Combatants Muslims of Medina Quraish of Mecca Commanders Muhammad Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib Ali Amr ibn HishÄm (aka AbÅ« Jahl) Abu Sufyan Strength 305-350 <900-1000 Casualties 14 killed 50-70 killed 43-70 captured The Battle of Badr (Arabic: ‎), fought March 17, 624 CE (17 Ramadan...
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The encounter is generally regarded as a victory for the Meccans and a serious setback for the Muslims. Watt, in his 1956 account of the battle, disagrees; he concludes that while the Muslims did not win, the Meccans themselves had suffered some losses and did not feel strong enough to attack the Muslims in their stronghold. Since the Meccans had embarked on the venture with an eye to subduing the Muslims entirely, their mission had actually failed (pp. 27-29). William Montgomery Watt is a English Islamic scholar. ...
The background to the battle
Muhammad had preached his message of Islam in Mecca from 613 to 622. He had attracted a small, tight-knit community of followers, but had also succeeded in angering the rest of the Quraysh, the clan that ruled Mecca and to which he belonged. After years of persecution, the Muslims fled Mecca in 622 and established themselves at Medina. They considered themselves to be in a state of war with Mecca and raided Meccan caravans. The Meccans sent out a small army to punish the Muslims and stop their raiding. At the Battle of Badr in 624, a small Muslim force defeated the much larger Meccan army. Muhammad (Arabic ; also Mohammed, Mohamet, and other variants[1] [2] [3]), 570-632 C.E.,[4] [5] was an Arab religious and political leader who established Islam and the Muslim community (Ummah, Arabic: أمة) to whom he preached. ...
Quraish (sura) is also the name of a Surah in the Quran. ...
Combatants Muslims of Medina Quraish of Mecca Commanders Muhammad Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib Ali Amr ibn HishÄm (aka AbÅ« Jahl) Abu Sufyan Strength 305-350 <900-1000 Casualties 14 killed 50-70 killed 43-70 captured The Battle of Badr (Arabic: ‎), fought March 17, 624 CE (17 Ramadan...
Many Muslims considered this unexpected victory a proof that Muhammad was indeed a prophet, favored by Allah (God). Hence they were confident that Allah would always favor them in battles with the Meccans. Allah is the Arabic language word referring to God, the Lord and, literally according to the Quran, to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Abrahamic religions. ...
The Meccan force Losses at the Battle of Badr infuriated the Meccans, who now wanted revenge for their dead kinsmen. The following year, they raised another force, said to number 3000, and set out for the Muslim base in Medina. The force was led by Abu Sufyan. Rather than attacking Medina itself (which held a number of strongholds that would have required long sieges to overcome) they camped on the outskirts of the oasis, hoping that the Muslims would come out to meet them. Abu Sufyan ibn Harb was the leader of the Banu Abd Shams clan of the Quraish tribe, and was the chieftain of the entire Quraish tribe, making him one of, if not the most powerful men in Mecca during the lifetime of Muhammad. ...
The Muslim battle plan At the Muslim conference of war, there were many voices urging Muhammad to march out and attack the Meccans. Muhammad felt that it would be safer to stay in the center of the oasis and take advantage of the heavily fortified strongholds there. Those who wanted to march out argued that the Meccans were destroying their crops, and that huddling in the strongholds would destroy Muslim prestige. Muhammad agreed to the wishes of his followers and readied the Muslim force for battle.
A group of approximately 1000 men set out on late Friday ( Later 300 of them retracted on the advice of Abdallah ibn Ubayy who was said to be a Munafiq )and managed to circle around the Meccan forces. Early the next morning, they took a position on the lower slopes of the hill of Uhud. The Meccan forces lay between the Muslim forces and the center of Medina. The Meccans attacked, but their initial charge was driven back. The Muslims surged forward, as victory seemed certain. A detachment of archers had previously been posted on a hill to defend an extremity of the Muslim flank; however, this force disobeyed its initial orders and ran downhill to join in the pursuit, leaving the flank hanging in the air. At this critical juncture the Meccan cavalry, led by Khalid ibn al-Walid (later famous as a Muslim general), attacked the Muslim flank and rear. After fierce hand-to-hand combat, most of the Muslims managed to withdraw to their original position on the hill. (One party was cut off and tried to make its way back to Medina; Watt believes that most of these men were killed.) Muhammad was wounded in the battle, and there were many reports that he had been killed. The Meccans, believing that they had destroyed their enemy, then returned to Mecca. Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy was a chief of some groups part of the Arab tribe Banu al-Khazraj at Medina (then known as Jathrib) and an opponent of Muhammad, who had undermined Abd-Allahs influence in that city. ...
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As noted above, the wisest thing would perhaps have been for the Meccan force to turn towards Medina and destroy the remaining Muslim and Medinan forces there. However, an early Muslim historian, Waqidi, records Amr ibn al-A'as as saying: al-Waqidi الواقدي Abu `Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Omar Ibn Waqid al Sahmi alAslamiأبو عبد الله Ù…Øمد بن عمر بن واقد السهمي (d. ...
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- When we renewed the attack against them, we smote a certain number of them, and they scattered in every direction, but later a party of them rallied. Quraysh then took counsel together and said, The victory is ours, let us depart. For we had heard that Ibn Ubayy had retired with a third of the force, and some of the Aws and the Khazraj had stayed away from the battle, and we were not sure that they would not attack us. Moreover we had a number of wounded, and all our horses had been wounded by the arrows. So they set off. We had not reached ar-Rawha until a number of them came against us and we continued on our way. (cited in Watt, 1956, p. 28).
Watt explains this last comment by saying that Muhammad realized that a show of force was required to speed the Meccans out of Medina's territory. Therefore he sent a small force out towards Hamra al-Asad to harry the Meccans.
Hind According to the early Muslim historian Ibn Ishaq, a number of Meccan women are said to have accompanied Abu Sufyan's army, including Hind bint Utbah, his wife. When the Meccans surged into battle, she and the other women stood at the rear, beating tambourines and urging their men forward. She is said to have sung: Ibn Ishaq (or ibn Ishaq), (d. ...
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- On ye sons of 'Abdul-Dar,
- On protectors of our rear,
- Smite with every sharpened spear!
and - If you advance we hug you,
- Spread soft rugs beneath you;
- If you retreat we leave you,
- Leave and no more love you.
- (cited in Guillaume, 1955, p. 374)
After the Muslims left the field of battle, Hind and her companions are said to have mutilated the Muslim corpses, cutting off their ears and noses and making the gruesome relics into anklets. Hind is said to have cut open the corpse of Hamza, Muhammad's uncle, and taken out Hamza's liver, which she then attempted to eat. Hamza ibn Abdul Muttalib (Arabic: Øمزه بن عبدالمطلب) was the uncle of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad. ...
Watt does not mention this episode in his otherwise detailed work, which may mean that he regards it as an unfounded calumny.
The Muslim reaction to the setback Watt regards this battle as a setback rather than a defeat. To the Muslims, however, it was a shock. They had expected another victory like Badr. Instead, they had barely held off the invaders and had lost a great many men. This was a large loss to a small community. If Muhammad was Allah's favored prophet, how could this have happened?
The usual Muslim explanation for the defeat is that the Muslim forces were on the verge of success when they stopped to loot the Meccan tents. The Muslims, by their own greed, indiscipline, and vainglory, had forfeited the favor of Allah and had to be humbled. The proper response to the setback was not despair, but renewed determination and faith. Muslims also believe that it was not their greed which caused the Muslims to leave their posts but actually when they saw the Meccan forces retreating, they thought that the battle was over. They therefore ran to celebrate and to collect the proceeds of the war.
Watt doubts that the Muslims had advanced as far as the Meccan tents, and believes that the superior generalship of Khalid ibn al-Walid (so amply demonstrated in his later career as a Muslim general) may perhaps account for the Meccan success. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...
The historical record Much of the surviving historical material on early Islamic history consists of old soldiers' tales. Scholars like Ibn Ishaq and Waqidi interviewed the families of the earliest Muslims, writing down the recollections they had heard from their elders. Inevitably, a great many of these recollections consist of accounts of the bravery of the soldier in question, and emphatic denials that he was ever part of the contingent of greedy archers believed to have lost Uhud for the Muslims.
The record is complicated by later civil wars between Muslims, in which they split into parties and fought for control of the empire. All parties to the conflict were tempted to rewrite the past so as to depict their opponents as feckless cowards. Thus Shi'a accounts of Uhud depict the first three caliphs (Abu Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khattab, and Uthman ibn Affan), caliphs hated by the Shi'a as usurpers, as cowards who fled the scene of battle. Ali ibn Abi Talib, followed by the Shi'a, is believed to have been the bravest of the warriors at Uhud. Sunni accounts of the battle differ. Ibn Ishaq, for example, describes in great detail the exploits of Abu Dujana and Hamza. He mentions Ali only as giving water to Muhammad after the battle. Shia Islam ( Arabic شيعى follower; English has traditionally used Shiite or Shiite) is the second largest Islamic denomination; some 20-25% of all Muslims are said to follow a Shia tradition. ...
Abu Bakr As Siddiq (Arabic ابو بكر الصديق, alternative spellings, Abubakar, Abi Bakr, Abu Bakar) (c. ...
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Leave this page if youre under 18!! - Page contains huge lies and hardly has any facts > it will surely misguide you! Uthman ibn Affan (Arabic: عثمان بن عÙان) (c. ...
Ali ibn Abu Talib (Arabic: علي بن أبي طالب translit: ‘AlÄ« ibn Abu TÌ£Älib Persian: علی پسر ابو طالب) ‎ (599 – 661) is an early Islamic leader. ...
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References - Guillaume, A. -- The Life of Muhammad, Oxford University Press 1955
- Watt, W. Montgomery -- Muhammad at Medina,. Oxford University Press 1956
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