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- A military expedition led by ‘Abdur Rahman bin ‘Auf was
despatched to the habitation of Bani Kalb in Doumat Al-Jandal in Sha‘ban 6
Hijri.
Before setting out, the Prophet [pbuh] summoned ‘Abdur Rahman, and placed his hand on
the latter’s hand invoking Allâh’s blessings and giving him commandments to act
magnanimously during the war. He told him to marry the king’s daughter if they obeyed
him. ‘Abdur Rahman stayed among those people for three days, invited them to Islam
and they responded positively. He then did marry the king’s daughter Tamadur bint
Al-Asbagh.
- In the same month and year, ‘Ali bin Abi Talib was despatched at
the head of a platoon to the habitation of Bani Sa‘d bin Bakr in a place called
Fadk.
Prophet Muhammad [pbuh] had been reported that those had rallied ranks to support the
Jews. The Muslim fighters used to march in the day and lurk at night. On their way, they
captured an enemy scout who admitted being sent to Khaibar tribe, to offer them support in
return for their dates. ‘Ali and his companions raided their encampment, captured
five hundred camels and two thousand goats, but Banu Sa‘d, with their chieftain Wabr
bin ‘Aleem had fled away.
- An expedition led by Abu Bakr As-Siddiq or Zaid bin Haritha was
despatched to Wadi Al-Qura in Ramadan 6 Hijri after Fazara sept had made an attempt at the
Prophet’s life. Following the morning prayer, the detachment was given orders to raid
the enemy. Some of them were killed and others captured. Amongst the captives, were Umm
Qirfa and her beautiful daughter, who was sent to Makkah as a ransom for the release of
some Muslim prisoners there.[] Umm Qirfa’s attempts at the
Prophet’s life recoiled on her, and the thirty horsemen she had gathered and
sustained to implement her evil scheme were all killed.
- Anas bin Malik reported that some people belonging to tribe of
‘Uraina came to Allâh’s Messenger [pbuh] and made pretensions to Islam. They
stayed in Madinah but found its climate uncongenial, so they were asked to pitch their
tents in the pastures nearby. They did so and were all right. They then fell on the
Prophet’s shepherd and killed him, turned apostates from Islam and drove off the
camels. This news reached the Prophet [pbuh] , who sent a group of twenty Muslims led by
Karz bin Jabir Al-Fihri on their track. They were brought and handed over to him. He had
their hands and feet cut off, their eyes gouged out in recompense for their
behaviour, and
then they were thrown on the stony ground until they died. [Za'd Al-Ma'ad 2/122]
Biographers also reported ‘Amr bin Omaiya
Ad-Damari and Salamah bin Abi Salamah to have been sent on an errand to kill Abu
Sufyan,
the chief of Quraish, who had already sent a bedouin to kill the Prophet [pbuh]. The
two-men mission failed except for three polytheists killed on the way. It is noteworthy
that all the foregone invasions did not imply real bitter fighting, they were rather
skirmishes or punitive military manoeuvres carried out to deter some enemies still
unsubdued. Deep meditation on the development of war circumstances reveal the continuous
collapse of the morale among the enemies of Islam, who had come to understand that they
were no longer in a position to contain the Islamic call or weaken its active drive. This
state of affairs reached its climax in Al-Hudaibiyah Treaty when the two belligerent
parties, believers and disbelievers, entered into a truce agreement that pointed markedly
to the ever-growing power of Islam, and recorded unequivocally the perpetuity of this
heavenly religion in pan-Arabia.
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