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Qatan is a location in Saudi Arabia. The Banu Asad ibn Khuzaymah tribe (not to be confused with the Banu Asad tribe), were the residents of Qatan, in the vicinity of
Fayd Fayd or Fa'idah is a village in Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. GeoNames database entry.search) Accessed 13 May 2011. The Expedition of Qatan was ordered by Muhammad and took place here.Mubarakpur ...
, they were a powerful tribe connected with the Quraysh. They resided near the hill of Qatan in Nejd. Muhammad, purportedly, received intelligence reports that they were planning a raid on Medina so he attacked them in the
Expedition of Qatan The Expedition of Qatan, was the first Raid on the Banu Asad bin Khuzaymah tribe, which occurred directly after the Battle of Hamra al-Asad in the year 4 A.H of the Islamic calendar.Note: Book contains a list of battles of Muhammad in Arabic, Eng ...
. He dispatched a force of 150 men under the leadership of
Abu Salama `Abd Allah ibn `Abd al-Asad Abū Salamah ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Asad ( ar, أَبُو سَلَمَة عَبْد ٱلله ٱبْن عَبْد ٱلْأَسَد ) was one of the Companians of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was also a cousin and a foster-brother of Muhamm ...
to make a sudden attack on this tribe. On the first day of Muharram.Mubarakpuri, The sealed nectar: biography of the Noble Prophet , p. 349.Ibn Sa’d, vol.ii, p. 150 Places Tribes


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List of battles of Muhammad __NOTOC__ 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 ...


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Geography of Saudi Arabia {{SaudiArabia-geo-stub