The claim
The sources recount the day of Badr as a decisive day.
The evidence
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The chain of transmitters — passage/muwatta-1-006
Another Muwatta hadith with a scholar's chain.
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chronicle — event/badr-battle-day
The record of Badr day — details of the first great battle in 2 AH.
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object — concept/badr-as-sign
The concept of Badr as a sign — how Muslim memory read it.
The historians' note
Historians see Badr as the community's first major military test; its meaning in memory explains the detail.