Who was al-Khansa?

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Tamadir bint Amr al-Khansa (c. 575–645) was a poet of Mecca and al-Yamama. She was the mistress of elegy in Arabic poetry. She embraced Islam with her sons, and they were martyred at al-Qadisiyya. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas