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The Incident of al-Raji'

سرية الرجيع

c. July 625 CE · Safar 4 AH

Mecca

In Safar 4 AH (July 625 CE), a party of ten Companions led by Asim ibn Thabit (may God be pleased with him) was sent as teachers following a deceptive request by the Adal and al-Qarah tribes; they were betrayed to Banu Lihyan at al-Raji', where seven were killed in combat and three taken captive.

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The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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610620630640 c.
Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate

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Mecca

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Asim ibn Thabit· Khubayb ibn Adi· Safwan ibn Umayya· Quraysh
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Mecca
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The Prophetic Era
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The dispatch of Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri to kill Abu Sufyan, and what he did on the way

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The dispatch of Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri to kill Abu Sufyan, and what he did on the way· The Battle of Hunayn· The capture of Thumama ibn Uthal al-Hanafi and his acceptance of Islam· The Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)· Expedition of al-Qarada· The Expedition of Banu al-Mustaliq (al-Muraysi')· Last Quraysh delegation to Abu Talib· The plot at Dar al-Nadwa

Sources

  • al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
  • Sahih al-Bukhari
  • al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
  • Zad al-Ma'ad — Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
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The dispatch of Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri to kill Abu Sufyan, and what he did on the way

Ibn Hisham tells it, from a scholar he trusts, among what Ibn Ishaq did not include: after the killing of Khubayb ibn Adi and his companions the Prophet sent Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri to Mecca to kill Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, with Jabbar ibn Sakhr al-Ansari; they circled the Ka'ba at night, Amr was recognised and the two fled to a mountain and spent the night in a cave, where Amr killed a Qurayshi who came upon them; he then took down Khubayb's body from its stake and threw it into a ravine; on his way home he killed a one-eyed old man of Banu al-Dil who sang that he would never be a Muslim, killed one of two Quraysh spies and brought the other bound to Medina.