The Patrol of Buwat
took place in October 623 or 2
A.H. of the
Islamic calendar
The Hijri calendar ( ar, ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, translit=al-taqwīm al-hijrī), also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 ...
, in
Rabi' al-Awwal. Muhammad went with a force of 200 men in order to raid parties of the
Quraysh.
Muhammad stayed at
Buwat Buwāṭ (بواط) is located near Mount Juhaynah in the neighborhood of Raḍwā. It was situated on the caravan route of the Quraysh merchants to Syria.
The Islamic prophet Muhammad launched a military campaign in this area known as the Patrol o ...
for some time and left without engaging in combat.
Background and raid
Approximately a month after the
patrol of Wadden, Muhammad personally led two hundred men including
Muhajirs and
Ansars to Bawat, a place on the caravan route of the Quraysh raiders led by
Umayyah ibn Khalaf
Umayya ibn Khalaf () (died 13 March 624) was an Arab slave master and the chieftain of the Banu Jumah of the Quraysh in the seventh century. He was one of the chief opponents against the Muslims led by Muhammad. Umayya is best known as the master ...
.
Ibn Khalaf was believed to have tortured a Muslim named
Bilal Ibn Rabah and had strongly opposed Islam.
However, no battle took place.
According to
Haykal, Umayyah ibn Khalaf took another route.
Muhammad then went up to Dhat al-Saq in the desert of al-Khabar. He prayed there and a mosque was built at the spot.
See also
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List of expeditions of Muhammad
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The list of expeditions of Muhammad includes the expeditions undertaken by the Muslim community during the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Some sources use the word ''ghazwa'' and a related plural ''maghazi'' in a narrow techn ...
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Muhammad as a general
The military career of Muhammad (''c.'' 570 – 8 June 632), the Islamic prophet, encompasses several expeditions and battles throughout the Hejaz region in the western Arabian Peninsula which took place in the final ten years of his life, from ...
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Muslim–Quraysh War
The Muslim–Quraysh War was the six-year-long military and religious conflict in the Arabian Peninsula between the early Muslims led by Muhammad, and the Arab pagan Quraysh tribe. The conflict started in March 623 with the Battle of Badr, and c ...
References
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Campaigns led by Muhammad
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