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Al-Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 289. In Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman.

Military Expeditions led by the Prophet (pbuh) (Al-Maghaazi).

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Al-Tabari’s full name is a bit too much to burden you with. It’s Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir ibn Yazid ibn Kathir al-Tabari. See Wikipedia. Mumammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

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“the Messenger of God killed many polytheists of Quraysh at Badr”. al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari English translation of “at Tareekh al Tabari”. Volume VII: The Foundation of the Community. Translated by M.V. McDonald. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987: p. 85.

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At the Battle of the Trench, a small group of Meccan horsemen, Meccan “knights”, manage to gallop over a weak spot in the defensive ditch. The leader of this group dares the Moslems to send him one warrior to determine by single combat which side has won. Ali goes out to take up the challenge…but the Meccan hero is his uncle. The uncle begs Ali to go back and explains that he does not want to kill his own nephew. Too bad, says Ali, “But I want to kill you.” The Meccan, disabled by wounds he sustained years earlier at the Battle of Badr, strikes a mighty blow that slices through Ali’s shield and gives Ali a mild blow to the head. Unfortunately, this turns out to be a bad move. The Meccan’s sword is now stuck in Ali’s shield. So Ali swings his sword at his uncle’s neck, slices an artery, sees his uncle fall to the ground and die, then lets out a mighty cry of “Allah Akhbar”. When Ali returns from the battle “smiling with joy”, the first question one of the Moslem lieutenants of Mohammed asks him is, “if he had stripped him of his armour”. Ali replies that

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I forebore to take his garments

Though had I been vanquished he would have taken mine.”

In other words, you normally stripped a man you’d killed of his armor, his weapons, and even his clothes.

A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: pp. 455-456.

In the same battle, one of the Meccan knights manages to storm the trench, but is stoned to death. Writes Ibn Ishaq, “The Moslems got possession of his body,” stripped it of everything of value, “and asked the apostle to let them sell his effects.” Mohammed’s reply, in essence, was I don’t care. Do whatever you like. A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 456. For more examples of how bodies were stripped for their plunder, see A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: pp. 571-572.

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A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 571.

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al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari. English translation of "at Tareekh al Tabari". Volume VII, The Foundation of the Community. Trans. M.V. McDonald. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987: p. 85.

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A magic sword that later became important to the legend of Ali—the companion of the prophet around whom the Shiite sect formed. Dhu al-faqar. (2005). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved December 29, 2005, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service
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"Dhu al-Faqar is the name of this sword, taken as booty by the prophet Muhammad at the Battle of Badr." Brannon Wheeler. Swords of the Prophet Muhammad.Visiting Distinguished Professor of History and Politics United States Naval Academy.

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From the Queen of Saba to a Modern State: 3,000 years of civilization in southern Arabia. YemenWeb.com. Founder: Sharaf Mutaher Alkibsi. September 15, 2002

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From the Queen of Saba to a Modern State: 3,000 years of civilization in southern Arabia. YemenWeb.com. Founder: Sharaf Mutaher Alkibsi. September 15, 2002

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“The apostle ordered that the dead should be thrown into a pit. …As they threw them into the pit the apostle stood and said, ‘Oh people of the pit, have you found that what God threatened is true?’” A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955
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Ibn Ishaq. Sirat Rasoul Allah: The earliest biography of Muhammad, by ibn Ishaq. An abridged version Edited by Michael Edwardes.
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“The Battle of Badr”. Al-Islam.org. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

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al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari: English translation of "at Tareekh al Tabari". Albany: State University of New York Press: Book VII, p. 66. See also A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004:p. 308.

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Hazrat Moulana Sayyed Abul Hassan Ali Nadwi(R.A.). The Seerah Of Muhammad(Sallallahu Laiyhi Wassallam): (The Last Prophet: A Model For All Time). Al-Islaah Publications. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

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Maulana A. S. Muhammad Abdul Hai (Rah.). Holy Life Of Hazrat Muhammad

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http://www.al-islamforall.org/litre/Englitre/Hmohd.htm

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“Badr was the site of one of the Arab fairs where they used to hold a market every year,” says Ibn Ishaq, Mohammed’s first Islamic biographer. This explains the presence of the well—the pit into which Mohammed had the bodies of his enemies thrown. A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955
, eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 296.

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“Battle of Badr was an important one from the point of its consequences and impacts. In fact, it was the first instalment of punishment for atheists, from Allah, for denying the invitation to Islam. This battle made it clear as to who deserved the survival more? Islam or heathenism (certainly Islam) and how the things will take shape in future.”

”Maulana A. S. Muhammad Abdul Hai (Rah.). Holy Life Of Hazrat Muhammad

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Retrieved July 16, 2005, from the World Wide Web http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/seerah/0005.htm Seerah of the Final Messenger of Allaah: The Story of the Prisoners of the Battle of Badr Shaykh Safi ur-Rahmaan Mubarakfoori From Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtoom. In one of the Hadith, the phrase used is, “It is not befitting for a prophet that he should take prisoners until the force of the disbelievers has been crushed..." Shahih Muslim. Book 019, Number 4360

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. Yet another translation is “It is not fitting for an apostle that he should have prisoners of war until he hath thoroughly subdued the land.” The Holy Qur’an. Translation by Abdullah Yusufali. Complete online text.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/islam/
. Then there’s Ibn Ishaq’s version, “God said, ‘It is not for any prophet,’ i.e before thee, ‘to take prisoners from his enemies’ from his enemies ‘until he has made slaughter in the earth,’ i.e. slaughtered his enemies until he drives them from the land.’” A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955: pp. 326-327. See also:
Qur'an (8 : 67) cited in Retrieved September 14, 2004, from the World Wide Web http://www.geocities.com/badr_313/battle.htm This work is an extract of the Second Volume of English Translation of Sirat-un-Nabi originally written in Urdu by the late 'Allama Shibli Nu'mani, a well-known Muslim historian who requires no commendation. His famous work Sirat-un-Nabi also hardly stands in need of any introduction. The book Sirut-un-Nabi is translated by Mr. Budayuni who has the full command of both the languages, Urdu as well as English. The Battle of Badr.

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Sahih Bukhari,

Book #52, Hadith #46. Sahih Bukhari translated by M. Muhsin Khan. in SearchTruth.com.

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Imam Ibn Taymiyyah. The Religious and Moral Doctrine On Jihad. From "al-Siyaasa al-shar`iyya fee islaah al-raa`ee wa al-raa`iyya" (Governance according to God’s Law in reforming both the ruler and his flock). Retrieved November 19, 2001, from the World Wide Web http://www.islaam.com/ilm/ibnta.htm. Or as one modern Islamic writer, Maulana A.S. Muhammad Abdul puts it, “Jihad (holy war) is the touchstone in Islamic movement.” Maulana A. S. Muhammad Abdul Hai (Rah.). Holy Life Of Hazrat Muhammad

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