Badr

E-snad · Sîra
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A caravan, a council, a night of dua, and a victory the Qur'an says came from Allah alone.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1 · free

    The road to Badr

    In the second year after the Hijra, a caravan of Quraysh passed near Medina. No one set out for a war. How did a march towards a caravan become the day the Qur'an calls the criterion?

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  2. Episode 2

    The dua under the shelter

    Three hundred and some men on one side of the valley, a thousand on the other. Before any fighting, the longest moment of that day was spent with raised hands.

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  3. Episode 3

    The captives, and the tears

    Seventy of Quraysh were killed and seventy captured. The battle was over. The day was not. What was done with the captives, and why did the Prophet ﷺ weep the next morning?

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