The expedition against the Banu Saleem tribe, also known as the Al Kudr Invasion,. occurred directly after the

Battle of Badr The Battle of Badr ( ar, غَزْوَةُ بَدِرْ ), also referred to as The Day of the Criterion (, ) in the Qur'an and by Muslims, was fought on 13 March 624 CE (17 Ramadan, 2 AH), near the present-day city of Badr, Al Madinah Provinc ...

in the year A.H. 2 of the Islamic calendar. The expedition was ordered by

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monot ...

after he received intelligence that the Banu Salim were planning to invade Madina. This was Muhammad's first interaction with the people of

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. He had gotten news that some tribes were amassing an army on march from Bahrain.Yahiya Emerick
Critical Lives: Muhammad
p. 185, Penguin, 2002. Muhammad responded by launching a pre-emptive strike against their base in Al Kudr which was a watering place at the time.Mubarakpuri, The Sealed Nectar, p. 204.

When the tribe heard of this, they fled. Muhammad captured 500 of their camels from the raid, and distributed them between his fighters. He also kept a fifth of the spoils as

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. This event is mentioned in

Ibn Hisham Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī al-Muʿāfirī al-Baṣrī ( ar, أبو محمد عبدالملك بن هشام ابن أيوب الحميري المعافري البصري; died 7 May 833), or Ibn Hisham, e ...

's biography of Muhammad and other historical books. Modern secondary sources which mention this include the award-winning book

Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum ''Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum'' ( ar, الرحيق المختوم; ), is a seerah book, or biography of the Prophet, which was written by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri. This book was awarded first prize by the Muslim World League in a worldwide competitio ...

(The Sealed Nectar).
Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum - The Sealed Nectar
{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708231936/http://store.dar-us-salam.com/NW/004a.html , date=2011-07-08 ''. Dar-us-Salam Publications.

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624 Campaigns led by Muhammad

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