The Best of Creation part 12

The fourth year after the Migration

The dispatch of troops to Bi’r [Well] al-Ma’ūnah took place; seventy of the best Muslims, who used to be called ‘the Reciters’ [of the Qur’an], were sent by him ﷺ to hunt down ‘Amir ibn all Malik in Najd, known as the spear-player. The Muslims marched.com forth until they alighted at Bi’r al-Ma’unah. The tribes of Sulaym, Āṣiyyah, Ra’l and Dhakwān deceived them [and they were murdered]. Thus, for thirty mornings, he ﷺ prayed against those who killed his Companions at the Bi’r al-Ma’ūnah. Allah revealed Qur’anic verses regarding them which were later abrogated [from the actual text of the Qur’an]; amongst them, ‘Convey to our people about us that we have met our Lord, and He is pleased with us and we are pleased with Him.’ Amongst those martyred [at Bi’r al- Ma’ūnah] was ‘Āmir ibn Fuhayrah, about whom ‘Amir ibn Ṭufayl said, ‘I have seen him raised to the sky to the extent I am looking at the sky between him and the earth.’
The expedition (sariyyah) of ‘Asim ibn Thābit took place, with a group of ten of the best Companions. They set out until they reached al-Raji’, which is a well in the territory of Hudhayl, between ‘Usfän and Marr al-Zahran, a distance of approximately fifty-five miles from Mecca. Bani Liḥyān betrayed them, and so ‘Asim and seven others were killed; amongst them was Khubayb ibn ‘Adī, who, as they were about to crucify him, said:

I do not care when I am killed as a Muslim On which side, for Allah’s sake, is my death. And that is for the sake of God, and if He wills, He will bless the torn limbs of my body.

Then there was the expedition [ghazwah] against Bani Naḍīr. Bani Naḍīr was a Jewish tribe that had agreed a covenant with the Prophet ﷺ when he arrived in Medina; the covenant stated that they would fight alongside him and not against him. Thereafter, they breached the covenant and tried to assassinate the  Prophet ﷺ, so he ﷺ besieged them. In response, they requested reconciliation, and so he ﷺ agreed to banish them; they left Medina, with some settling in Khaybar and others, in Shām. dom

Lady Zaynab bint Khuzaymah al-‘Āmiriyyah, nicknamed ‘the Mother of the Destitute,’ passed away after living with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for only three months.

In Shawwāl, the Messenger of Allah  ﷺ married Umm Salamah Hind, the daughter of Abu Umayyah .

The [concession] to shorten the [obligatory] prayer” was revealed in His Most High’s words: ‘When you travel on the earth…’ [Qur’an 4: 101].

The Prophet ﷺ ordered Zayd ibn Thābit to learn how to read and write Hebrew
Fatimah bint Asad, the mother of ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib, AlaihisSalam passed away; when she died, he ﷺ undertook her burial and even lay in her grave [whilst supplicating for her forgiveness].