If we accept that the Syrian army was consisted of 27...

If we accept that the Syrian army was consisted of 27 thousand armed men[^8] aged between 20 to 50 years old, we will find out how disastrous could the invasion of this number of troops have been on a town surrounded by numerous trenches and rugged lands. And if we agree with a number of historians who have estimated the Syrian army in the battle of Harrah to be the least of 10 thousand fighting men, still we can guess the extension of this catastrophe that took place in Medina.

The ten thousand young fighting men, who have for several days traversed the long distance between Syria and Medina with much hardship, overwhelmed the enemy in a single day of aggressive and severely harsh hit-and-fighting, and given full permission by their commander and central government for any action they wished to do, now at the end of the day stepped into houses whose men are either killed or escaped or have raised their hands up as a sign of surrender to be taken as captives.

How would have such ravenous and rash men treated the helpless and unprotected women, girls and children?! We do not need to merely guess and imagine the extension of the tragedy; because the historians have explicitly recorded what had taken place: “Thousands of women were assaulted in the invasion of the Syrians into Medinat al-Nabī (s), and months after the battle of Harrah, thousands of babies were born whose fathers were unknown, hence were named “children of Harrah”!

The sinister aftermaths of this ethico-human diaster left its ominous impact on families and the marriages of their daughters, bringing in many individual and social problems that are too heavy to be expressed by any pen.”[^9]131 Streets of Medina were filled with the bodies of the killed, blood stains covered the way up to the Prophet's (s) Mosque[^10], children were killed in their mothers' laps[^11], and the old companions of the Apostle of Allah (s) were persecuted and disgraced.[^12]134 [^1]: Ya‘qūbī, Ta’rīkh, vol.

2, p. 251. [^2]: Ibn Qutayba, Al-Imāma wa al-Siyāsa, vol. 1, p. 212 [^3]: Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī al-Ta’rīkh, vol. 4, p. 120; Ibn Athīr, Al-Bidāya wa al-Nihāya, vol. 6, p. 236; Ibn Taghrī Birdī, Al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 1, p. 132. [^4]: Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī al-Ta’rīkh, vol. 4, p. 120; Ibn Kathīr, Al-Bidāya wa al-Nihāya, vol. 6, p. 236; Ibn Taghrī Birdī, Al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 1, p. 132. [^5]: Ibn Qutayba, Al-Imāma wa al-Siyāsa, vol. 1, p. 220, 212. [^6]: Ibid, vol. 2, p. 10.

[^7]: Ibn A’tham Kūfi, Al-Futūh, vol.