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Battle of Badr — its cause and the call to Banu Hashim

غزوة بدر الكبرى — سببها والمناداة لبني هاشم

Waqidi recounts how the Quraysh sought single combatants: their caller shouted 'Muhammad, send out our peers from your people,' and the Prophet ﷺ called Banu Hashim to answer in their own right — Hamza, Ali and Ubayda ibn al-Harith (may God be pleased with him) won their duels before the rout at Badr.

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«نادى منادي المشركين: يا محمد، أخرج لنا الأكفاء من قومنا. فقال لهم رسول الله: يا بني هاشم، قوموا فقاتلوا بحقكم الذي بعث الله به نبيكم»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib· Ali ibn Abi Talib· Ubayda ibn al-Harith· Muhammad· Banu Hashim· The Battle of Badr· Badr

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The Battle of Badr· The day of Badr: the lines, the duels and the victory· The duel at Badr· The build-up to Badr: Abu Sufyan's caravan, Mecca's muster and the Prophet's march· Mecca· Banu Hashim· The three years of the secret call· After Badr: the dead, the captives, the spoils, and the news in Mecca and Medina

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  • Kitab al-Maghazi by al-Waqidi — al-Maktaba al-Shamila digital text of the Marsden Jones edition (Oxford 1966)
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islam.museum contributors. “Battle of Badr — its cause and the call to Banu Hashim”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/waqidi-maghazi-badr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-11.

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The Battle of Badr

The first major battle between the Muslims of Medina and the Quraysh of Mecca, fought at the wells of Badr on 17 Ramadan 2 AH. It began as a pursuit of Abu Sufyan's caravan and ended in the defeat of the Meccan army. The Encyclopaedia of Islam gives the date as 17, 19 or 21 Ramadan, estimates the Muslim force at about 300 and the Meccan at about 950, and judges that the victory strengthened Muhammad's position in Medina.