Preparations for The Battle of ‘Uhud (L-449)
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وَإِذْ غَدَوْتَ مِنْ أَهْلِكَ تُبَوِّئُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَقَٰعِدَ لِلْقِتَالِ وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ 121. |
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121. Wa ‘iz gadawta min
‘ah-lika tubaw-wi-‘ul-Mu’-miniina maqaa-‘ida lil-qitaal. WAllaahu
Samii-‘un
‘Aliim- |
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121. Remember when you left your home in the morning, to
assign battle-positions for the believers. God is Hearing and Knowing. |
The events regarding preparations for the battle, departure from home to the battleground and drawing up in flanks for the battlefield by Holy Messenger (ﷺ) have been indicated in this verse. Holy Prophet (ﷺ) proceeded from home for the crusade in the right path early in the morning. He assigned the positions to the Believers for the battle, caused them to sit down on the appropriate lines of entrenchments and arranged the map of battlefield.
Here it signifies towards the Battle of ‘Uhad. Afterwards, the events and circumstances will be mentioned continuously about the Battle of ‘Uhad. It seems appropriate to describe the events of this battle (Gazwah) briefly in this lesson, so that there would not be necessary to repeat it again and again.
On Saturday, March 19th, 625 (3rd Shawwal) 3 AH, the Quraysh of Makkah led their Army to Madinah with three thousand selected braves. One year earlier, they suffered a defeat in the battle of Badr. So then, they came with full preparations. Holy Prophet (ﷺ) consulted his companions (May God be pleased with them). The old people advised that self-defense must be arranged by staying within the township. ‘Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy (the chief of the Khazraj tribe) and leader of the hypocrites had also this opinion. The young people said, “It is the sign of weakness; we should go out and fight against them. We shall defend with stakes and engage in a desperate undertaking at every cost.
Holy Messenger of God (ﷺ) agreed to this suggestion, came out from his house wearing the armor and departed towards the battlefield from the township along with other Muslims. Total numbers of Muslims were one thousand. ‘Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy (the leader of the hypocrites) returned with his three hundred disbelievers saying that ‘when you did not agree to us then we would not cooperate with you’.
Holy Prophet (ﷺ) delivered the flag over to Mas-‘ab bin ‘Umar (May God be pleased with him), appointed Zubair bin Awam (May God be pleased with him) as commander of the troops of the horses, kept the people (who were not in armor) under the command of Amir Hamza (May God be pleased with him), appointed fifty archers at a pass (of the mountain) under supervision of ‘Abd-Allah bin Zubair (May God be pleased with him) and ordered them that they should not leave the pass at any cost. This battle of right and wrong began with these preparations.
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