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Expedition of Dumat al-Jandal

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This expedition receives scant notice in the sources, but in some ways it is the most significant so far. As Dumah was some 500 miles from Medina there can have been no immediate threat to Muhammad, but it may be, as Caetani suggests, 1 that communications with Syria were being interrupted and
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On their way to Dumat Al-Jandal, they used to march by night and hide by day, so that they might take the enemy by surprise. When they drew near their destination, the Muslims discovered that the highway men had moved to another place, so they captured their cattle and shepherds.
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and supplies to Medina being interrupted. Watt says "It is tempting to suppose that Muhammad was already envisaging something of the expansion which took place after his death", and that the rapid march of his troops must have "impressed all those who heard of it".
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claims that this was the most significant expedition Muhammad ordered at the time, even though it received little notice in the primary sources.
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was 500 miles from Medina, and Watt says that there was no immediate threat to Muhammad, other than the possibility that his communications to
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supplies to Medina stopped. It is tempting to suppose that was already envisaging something of the expansion which took place after his death.
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forces to hunt for the enemy personnel but they detected none. He made a treaty with ‘Uyainah bin Hisn while returning to
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Muhammad successfully takes Dumat al-Jandal and stays for 5 days
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expedition which took place in August or September of 626 AD.
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is located at about a distance of fifteen days' march from
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Index

Dumat al-Jandal
Muslims
Muhammad
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Campaigns
Muhammad
Al-‘Īṣ
Safwan
Buwat
Dhu al-'Ushairah
Abwa'
Badr
Kudr
Sawiq
Banu Qaynuqa'
Dhu 'Amar
Bahran
Uhud
Hamra' al-Asad
Banu Nadir
Badr al-Maw'id
Dhat ar-Riqa'
1st Daumat al-Jandal
Trench
Banu Qurayza
al-Muraysi'
Banu Lahyan
Hudaybiyyah

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