al-Hubab ibn al-Mundhir

Hubab ibn al-Mundhir ibn al-Jamuh al-Khazraji, a Companion from the Ansar and the author of the counsel about the water on the day of Badr ¹.

On the night before the battle he asked the Prophet: "Is this a place God caused you to alight, which we may neither advance beyond nor fall back from, or is it opinion, war and stratagem?" When the Prophet said that it was opinion, war and stratagem, he advised lodging the army at the water nearest the enemy, filling in the wells beyond it, and building a basin to drink from, so that none could drink from beyond it ¹.

The Prophet took his advice. The Muslims camped at the water and cut Quraysh off from it, since Quraysh had camped on the far bank behind the dune ¹.

He asked the Prophet whether the position was revelation or opinion and stratagem. When he was told it was opinion, he advised them to camp at the water nearest the enemy, fill in what lay beyond it, and build a basin. The Prophet said that he had advised by way of opinion (the preparations before Badr) ¹.