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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Life of Muhammad Expeditions Here we discuss the raids of the Prophet (a.s.) against some areas, provinces, and tribes. I think, after deep thinking, that the goals of those raids were as the following: First , Allah the Almighty had sent his messenger as mercy to all the peoples and nations of the world to save them from their painful realities and guide them to the best.

The tribes at the time of the Prophet (a.s.) lived in utmost ignorance and bad habits besides idolatry. Therefore, the Prophet (a.s.) was ordered by Allah to carry out His mission to His people and take them to knowledge, guidance, high morals, and noble life.

Second , to repel the dangers expected from some tribes and provinces against Islam such as the Jews who plotted day and night against the Prophet (a.s.) and his mission and who were a base joined by the hypocrites to overthrow the Islamic authority; therefore, the Prophet (a.s.) was obliged to attack them to save Islam and the Muslims from their dangers.

Third , in any case, the raids against those tribes and peoples did not aim at subjugating them and possessing their properties, but to make them believe in Allah and His messenger, practice the rituals of the religion, and give up the bad habits of the age of ignorance. The expeditions 1. The expedition against the Banu Sulaym The Prophet (a.s.) and his army marched to the Bani Sulaym and stopped at one of their wells.

They remained there three days and went back without facing any resistance, [1] because the people of the tribe scattered here and there. 2. The expedition of as-Suwayq Historians say that the reason behind this expedition was that Abu Sufyan had sworn that he would not sleep with his woman at all except after fighting against Muhammad. So, one day, he and some men from Quraysh set out roving in the desert until they went to the Bani an-Nadheer near Medina.

There, they found a Muslim man from the Ansar with a companion of his and killed them both. When the Prophet (a.s.) was informed of that, he with his men set out chasing the killer after leaving Basheer bin Abdul Munthir as the wali over Medina. When they arrived in the Bani an-Nadheer, they found that the killers had fled back to Mecca. The Prophet (a.s.) and his army went back to Medina with no any loss in Muslims. [2] 3.

The expedition of al-Furu’ The Prophet (a.s.) appointed ibn Umm Kulthoom the wali over Medina, and he with his army marched to face Quraysh.