Expedition of Dumat al-Jandal | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Muslims | Tribes of Dumat al-Jandal | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Muhammad | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
1,000 fighters | Unknown[1] |
The Expedition of Dumat al-Jandal is an early Muslim expedition which took place in August or September of 626 AD.[2]
According to Indian biographer of Muhammad, Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri, Dumat al-Jandal is located at about a distance of fifteen days' march from Medina and five from Damascus.[1] According to historian William Montgomery Watt, it is 500 miles from Medina.[3]
This expedition receives scant notice in the sources, but in some ways it is the most significant so far. As Dumah was some 500 miles from Medina there can have been no immediate threat to Muhammad, but it may be, as Caetani suggests, 1 that communications with Syria were being interrupted and supplies to Medina stopped. It is tempting to suppose that was already envisaging something of the expansion which took place after his death.(free online)