The First Expedition to
Badr Badr (Arabic: بدر) as a given name below is an Arabic masculine and feminine name given to the "full moon on its fourteenth night" or the ecclesiastical full moon.
Badr may refer to: .and it is also one of the oldest and rarest names in the Arabi ...
( ar, غزوة سفوان ''ghazwa Safawān'') or the Preliminary Badr Invasion
occurred in year 2
AH of the Islamic calendar, in
Rabi ul Awal (September 623).
Kurz ibn Jabir al-Fihri
Kurz ibn Jabir al-Fihri was a companion of Muhammad but used to be an enemy. During the Invasion of Safwan he rustled some grazing cattle belonging to the Muslim community. Muhammad sent seventy Muslims after him, who chased him to Safwan, at the ...
raided Muslim territory and stole pasturing camels belonging to Madinah.
Muhammad was a three days distance away.
Muhammad mobilized 70 men.
By the time Muhammad reached the valley of Safawan, al-Fihri fled.
Once they passed Al Haja, they proceed to al Kut, also known today as
Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
.
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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625
Campaigns led by Muhammad
Safwan Safwan may refer to:
Places
* Safwan, Iraq, a town in southeastern Iraq
* Safwan Hill, highest terrain feature in the region
Institutions
* Safwan SC, a football club based in Safwan, Iraq
People Given name
* Safouane Attaf, Moroccan judoka (b ...