Then in Rajab there was the expedition of Abu ‘Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ, among a group of three hundred warriors, including ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, to intercept a caravan of Quraysh. It is known as the expedition of acacia tree leaves (Sariyyah al-Khabaṭ). He ﷺ sent baskets of dates as provisions for them, but when they had run out [of dates], they began to eat acacia tree leaves, whereupon Allah Most High brought forth from the ocean a sperm whale, from which they began to eat and gather their provisions. They returned without encountering any confrontation.
Then in Sha’bān, there was the expedition of Abū Qatādah together with fifteen men, to Khaḍirah, which is a land that belonged to Muḥārib [a tribe] in Najd. He killed some and capturedom others, and seized spoils. He was absent for fifteen nights.
Then, in the beginning of Ramadan, he ﷺ sent him [Abū Qatadah] among a group of eight men to Baṭn Iḍam – which is between Dhi Khashab and Dhi al-Marwah, three barīds [approximately forty-two miles] from Medina; there they met Amir ibn al-Aḍbat, who greeted them with the greeting of Islam [al-salām ‘alaykum]; however, Miḥlam ibn Juthāmah decided to kill him, and so Allah Most High revealed, ‘So, ascertain, and do not say to whoever offers you the greetings of peace, “You are not a believer”[Qur’an 4: 94]. When they reached Dhi Khashab, the news of the Prophet’s departure to Mecca [for its conquest] reached them. They seized a considerable amount of spoils.
The Expedition of the Conquest (Ghazwah al-Fath): the conquest of the Ennobled Mecca; also called the Conquest of Conquests, and the Greatest Conquest by which Allah honoured His religion, His Messenger, His army and His safe Sacred Precinct (haram). It took place in the month of Ramadan.
The reason behind this Conquest was that the Quraysh had
given [military] assistance to their allies Bani Bakr [in the latter’s offensive] against Khuza’ah, who were the Prophet’s ﷺ allies. By doing so, they violated the treaty which had been concluded in al- Hudaybiyah, so Khuza’ah came asking the Messengerﷺ to rescue them. So heﷺ sent a message to Quraysh giving them the option between paying the blood indemnity for those killed, or dissolving their treaty with Bani Bakr or war, but they refused all options except war. He ﷺtherefore set out on the tenth of Ramadan while fasting, until when he reached close to ‘Usfan, heﷺ broke his fast and ordered the people to do so. He ﷺalighted at Marr al-Zahrān, and over there, he ﷺ [the Prophet ] announced that whoever enters the mosque [in Mecca], then he is safe, and whoever enters Abū Sufyan’s house, then he is safe.
entered Mecca without a fight. Yet, heﷺ had ordered Khālid ibn al-Walid, together with a group of Muslims, to enter from the bottom of Mecca, where they encountered some skirmishes with He the opposition forces; they, however, emerged d victorious.ece.com
He ﷺcircumambulated the House [Kaaba], and then entered it and purified it of idols. He ﷺ then pardoned the people of Mecca and said to them his well-known words as they stood in front of him, ‘Go, for you are free.’ The people entered Allah’s religion in droves.
He ﷺstayed there for fifteen nights and dispatched troops outside the Sacred Precinct (haram) where they would seize spoils.
He ﷺsent Khālid ibn al-Walīd to destroy al-‘Uzzā – an idol in Naklah, which is a place between Mecca and al-Ta’if – five nights before the end of Ramadan, together with thirty cavalrymen, and so they destroyed it. –
He ﷺsent ‘Amr ibn al-‘As to destroy the idol Suwa’, which belonged to Hudhayl in Rahat (three miles from Mecca).
He ﷺsent Sa’d ibn Zayd al-Ashhalī, among twenty cavalrymen, to destroy the idol Manāh, which belonged to al-Aws and al- Khazraj in al-Mushallal.
In Shawwāl, he ﷺsent Khalid ibn al-Walid to Bani Judhaymah of Kinānah to invite them to Islam. However, they would not say, ‘We accept Islam;’ instead, they kept saying, ‘We have left our religion and adopted the new religion; we have left our religion and adopted the new religion (saba’nā, ṣaba’nā). Consequently, Khalid began to kill some and imprison others. Thereupon, he ﷺ said twice, ‘O Allah, I dissociate myself from what Khalid did.’ He then dispatched ‘ Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib AlaihisSalam to redress what Khālid ibn al- Walid had done; so he ﷺ sent money with ‘Ali AlaihisSalam to pay them the blood indemnity for their killed relatives and compensate them for what they lost. After making the payments of compensation, a small amount of money remained When ‘Alī AlaihisSalam returned to the Prophet ﷺ him of what he did, he ﷺ [the Prophet ] said to him, ‘You did the right thing; you did well.’ may have and told
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The Expedition of Hunayn occurred when he ﷺ had finished from the Conquest of Mecca, and he ﷺ was informed that Hawāzin had marched to launch an attack against him, so he ﷺ determined to march towards them with the army of the [Meccan] Conquest (Fath) and those new Muslims who had joined their ranks. When took positions to fight, he at, he came forth wearing double om armour, one over another, and riding on a white mule called Duldul. The disbelievers launched a single offensive and Banī Sulaym’s cavalry was defeated, and so the inhabitants of Mecca and [the rest of the] people followed their [footsteps with none standing their ground except for ten or eight]. The Muslims initially suffered a defeat; He Most High said, ‘And on the Day of Hunayn, when you were impressed with your large numbers, but they were of no avail to you…’ [Qur’an 9: 25].
Al-‘Abbas summoned the people [when the situation was dire], so they came forth, and as he ﷺ was sitting on his mule, he ﷺ took a fistful of soil and turned towards the disbeliever’s faces [while tossing the soil]; there was not one eye in which that soil did not enter. Then Allah most high revealed, ‘And it was not you [the Prophet] who threw when you threw; rather it was Allah Who threw’ [Qur’an 8: 17]. Allah then granted them victory.
There were four Muslims who were martyred, whereas the polytheists lost seventy. The Muslims’ offensive reached to the point where the [polytheists’] children were situated, so he ﷺ prohibited them from killing the children. His ﷺ herald announced, ‘Whoever kills a combatant, then he can have his armour. Thereafter, the enemies fled to Wādī Awṭās
Aal-e-Qutub Aal-e-Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi 