They had brought the women along with them so that the path...

They had brought the women along with them so that the path for soldiers fleeing the battlefield might be closed, because fleeing meant leaving the girls and women to be captured by the enemy, and the element of bravery in the Arabs could not yield to such a disgrace. A large number of slaves joined the army of Quraysh on account of tempting promises made to them. Wahshi bin Harb was an Ethiopian slave of Mut'am.

He possessed extraordinary skill in the use of javelin and had been promised freedom if he killed anyone of the three towering personalities of…