The expedition against the
Banu Saleem
Banu Salim or Banu Saleem or Bani Salim was a tribe during the Islamic prophet Muhammad's era. They participated in the Al Kudr Invasion. On Khalid ibn Walid's return from Nakhla expedition to destroy al-Uzza, Khalid bin Al-Waleed at the head of ...
tribe, also known as the Al Kudr Invasion,
[.] occurred directly after the
Battle of Badr
The Battle of Badr ( ar, غَزْوَةُ بَدِرْ ), also referred to as The Day of the Criterion (, ) in the Quran, Qur'an and by Muslims, was fought on 13 March 624 CE (17 Ramadan (calendar month), Ramadan, 2 Anno Hegirae, AH), near the ...
in the year A.H. 2 of the Islamic calendar. The expedition was ordered by
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...
after he received intelligence that the Banu Salim were planning to invade Madina.
This was Muhammad's first interaction with the people of
Bahrain
Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...
. He had gotten news that some tribes were amassing an army on march from Bahrain.
[Yahiya Emerick]
Critical Lives: Muhammad
p. 185, Penguin, 2002.
Muhammad responded by launching a pre-emptive strike against their base in Al Kudr which was a watering place at the time.
[Mubarakpuri, The Sealed Nectar, p. 204.]
When the tribe heard of this, they fled. Muhammad captured 500 of their camels from the raid, and distributed them between his fighters. He also kept a fifth of the spoils as
khums
In Islam, khums ( ar, خُمْس , literally 'one fifth') refers to the required religious obligation of any Muslims to pay 20% of their acquired wealth from certain sources toward specified causes. It is treated differently in Shia and Sun ...
.
This event is mentioned in
Ibn Hisham
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī al-Muʿāfirī al-Baṣrī ( ar, أبو محمد عبدالملك بن هشام ابن أيوب الحميري المعافري البصري; died 7 May 833), or Ibn Hisham, e ...
's biography of Muhammad and other historical books.
Modern secondary sources which mention this include the award-winning book
Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum
''Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum'' ( ar, الرحيق المختوم; ), is a seerah book, or biography of the Prophet, which was written by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri. This book was awarded first prize by the Muslim World League in a worldwide competition ...
(The Sealed Nectar).
Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum - The Sealed Nectar
{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708231936/http://store.dar-us-salam.com/NW/004a.html , date=2011-07-08 ''. Dar-us-Salam Publications.
See also
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List of expeditions of Muhammad
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The list of expeditions of Muhammad includes the expeditions undertaken by the Muslim community during the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Some sources use the word ''ghazwa'' and a related plural ''maghazi'' in a narrow techn ...
Notes
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Campaigns led by Muhammad