سرية أسامة بن زيد إلى مؤتة

سرية أسامة بن زيد إلى مؤتة

In the Prophet's final days he sent Usama ibn Zayd — son of Zayd ibn Haritha who fell at Mu'ta — at the head of an army drawn from the clans of al-Ash'ariyyin toward al-Balqa' against the Byzantines; some murmured at his youth. Waqidi records the Prophet's rebuke to his family: 'march in God's name until you reach your father's killers — I have put you in charge of this army.'