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battle, all three Muslim leaders fell one after the other as they took command of the force: first, Zayd, then Ja'far, then 'Abdullah. After the death of 'Abdullah, the Muslim soldiers were in danger of being routed. Thabit ibn Aqram, seeing the desperate state of the Muslim forces, took up the banner and rallied his comrades, thus saving the army from complete destruction. After the battle, ibn Aqram took the banner, before asking
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Daniel C. Peterson, Professor of Islamic Studies at Brigham Young University, finds the ratio of casualties among the leaders suspiciously high compared to the losses suffered by ordinary soldiers. David Powers, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell, also mentions this curiosity concerning the
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The Muslims engaged the Byzantines at their camp by the village of Musharif and then withdrew towards Mu'tah. It was here that the two armies fought. Some Muslim sources report that the battle was fought in a valley between two heights, which negated the Byzantines' numerical superiority. During the
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learned of their plans and collected the garrisons of the fortresses. Seeing the great number of the enemy forces, the Muslims withdrew to the south where the fighting started at the village of Mu'tah and they were either routed or retired without exacting a penalty on the Ghassanid chief. According
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notes that al-Waqidi also recorded an account where the Byzantine forces fled. Powers suggests that later Muslim historians reworked the early source material to reflect the Islamic view of God's plan. Subsequent sources present the battle as a Muslim victory given that most of the Muslim soldiers
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In Islamic historical sources, the battle is usually described as the Muslims' attempt to take retribution against a Ghassanid chief for taking the life of an emissary. According to Byzantine sources, the Muslims planned to launch their attack on a feast day. The local Byzantine
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They went on their way as far as Ma'ān in Syria where they heard that Heraclius had come down to Ma'āb in the Balqāʾ with 100,000 Greeks joined by 100,000 men from Lakhm and Judhām and al-Qayn and Bahrāʾ and Balī commanded by a man of Balī of Irāsha called Mālik b.
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or if the Muslims completely routed the enemy. He further notes that the discrepancy between leaders and ordinary soldiers is not inconceivable in view of Arab fighting methods.
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Meanwhile, Muhammad had sent his emissary to the ruler of Bostra. While on his way to Bostra, he was executed in the village of Mu'tah by the orders of a Ghassanid official
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Muslim accounts of the battle differ over the result. According to David S. Powers, the earliest Muslim sources like al-Waqidi record the battle as a humiliating defeat (
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The Byzantines do not appear to have used many Greek, Armenian, or other non-Arab soldiers at Mu'ta, even though the overall commander was the
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After the Muslim forces arrived at Medina, they were reportedly berated for withdrawing and accused of fleeing. Salamah ibn Hisham, brother of
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7 (AH), 629 (CE), for a quick expedition to attack and punish the tribes for the murder of his emissary by the Ghassanids. The army was led by
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Theodore. The number that the Byzantines raised are, of course, uncertain, but unlikely to have exceeded 10,000.
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to Muslim sources, after three of their leaders were killed, the command was given to
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The Byzantines were reoccupying territory following the peace accord between Emperor
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Archaeological remains that exist near the place where the Battle of Mu'tah occurred
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argues that a low casualty count is possible if the nature of this encounter was a
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Three years later the Muslims would return to defeat the Byzantine forces in the
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Muhammad dispatched 3,000 of his troops in the month of
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Today, Muslims who fell at the battle are considered
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minuscule casualties recorded by Muslim historians.
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Index

Arab–Byzantine wars

Zayd ibn Haritha
Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
Abd Allah ibn Rawahah
Mu'tah
Jordan
Mu'tah
Palaestina Salutaris
31°2′N 35°42′E / 31.033°N 35.700°E / 31.033; 35.700
Muslim Arabs
Byzantine Empire
Ghassanids
Zayd ibn Haritha

Ja'far ibn Abi Talib

Abd Allah ibn Rawaha

Khalid ibn al-Walid
Theodore

Al-Waqidi
Ibn Ishaq
Battle of Mu'tah is located in Jordan
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