Battle of Hunayn: Difference between revisions

Ibn Is'haq has narrated a [[hadith]] from [[Imam al-Baqir (a)]] according to which when the Prophet (s) decided to go to the battle of Hawazin, he sent someone to Safwan b. Umayya (a head of [[Quraysh]] who was still a polytheist at that time), asking him to lend armors and weapons to him and the Muslims (with the guarantee that they will return them to him). Safwan accepted this and lent 100 armors to them.

Together with 10,000 of his followers, who had helped him in the [[conquest of Mecca]] and 2,000 new converts to Islam from [[Mecca]], [[the Prophet (s)]] departed from Mecca to fight the [[Hawazin]]. Some of these new converts only wanted to see who will win in order to seize booties, and they may have as well hoped that the Prophet (s) and Muslims would be defeated in this battle. The Prophet (s), Muslims, and some men from [[Quraysh]], some of whom were still polytheists, arrived in [[Hunayn]] in the evening of Tuesday, 10 of [[Shawwal]], [[8]] A.H. (December 2, 630).