The people of the city had gone to their homes and a large...

The people of the city had gone to their homes and a large group had gone to the mosque and Mecca had surrendered.

Only in one of the neighbourhoods of the city, where a group of Huzail and Banu Bakr tribes lived, they blocked the path of the Islamic troops based on the instigation of Ikrimah ibn Abu Jahl and Ṣafwān ibn Umayyah and they prepared for a fight and took a position in a place called “Khandamah.” The army that passed through that neighbourhood was the group under the commander of Khalīd ibn Walīd. When Khalīd learned about the situation, he ordered a fight.

The swords were drawn and the polytheists were pushed back to the vicinity of the Haram Mosque,…