Sword of Allah: Khalid Bin Al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns

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Khalid bin Walid played a pivotal role in various military campaigns that led to the rapid expansion of the Muslim empire. He demonstrated his military genius in battles such as the Battle of Mu’tah, where he assumed command after the death of the previous Muslim commander, and successfully led the Muslim forces to a strategic withdrawal. We know that relics such as his garments, hair, etc. have been lost and it is not possible for anyone to prove with certainty that any of them exist.Khalid bin Walid’s life took a transformative turn when he embraced Islam in the year 8 AH (629 CE). His conversion was a significant moment, as he shifted his loyalty from his tribal allegiances to the cause of Islam and the leadership of the Prophet Muhammad. From that point forward, Khalid dedicated his formidable military skills and strategic acumen to the service of Islam. Military Campaigns and Conquests So sharp was the edge of the ‘sword’! It simply conquered the hearts, the bodies yielded automatically. a b Tikekar, Maneesha (2004). Across the Wagah: An Indian's Sojourn in Pakistan. Promilla. p.34. ISBN 978-81-85002-34-7. Several traditions relate the Muslims' capture of Damascus. [124] The most popular narrative is preserved by the Damascus-based Ibn Asakir (d. 1175), according to whom Khalid and his men breached the Bab Sharqi gate. [124] Khalid and his men scaled the city's eastern walls and killed the guards and other defenders at Bab Sharqi. [126] As his forces entered from the east, Muslim forces led by Abu Ubayda had entered peacefully from the western Bab al-Jabiya gate after negotiations with Damascene notables led by Mansur ibn Sarjun, a high-ranking city official. [124] [127] The Muslim armies met up in the city center where capitulation terms were agreed. [127] On the other hand, al-Baladhuri holds that Khalid entered peacefully from Bab Sharqi while Abu Ubayda entered from the west by force. [124] Modern research questions Abu Ubayda's arrival in Syria by the time of the siege. Caetani cast doubt about the aforementioned traditions, while the orientalist Henri Lammens substituted Abu Ubayda with Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan. [128] He is generally considered by historians to be one of the most seasoned and accomplished generals of the early Islamic era, and he is likewise commemorated throughout the Arab world. Islamic tradition credits Khalid for his battlefield tactics and effective leadership of the early Muslim conquests, but also accuses him of illicitly executing Arab tribesmen who had accepted Islam—namely members of the Banu Jadhima during the lifetime of Muhammad, and Malik ibn Nuwayra during the Ridda Wars—and being responsible for moral and fiscal misconduct in the Levant. Khalid's military fame disturbed some of the pious early Muslims, most notably Umar, who feared it could develop into a personality cult.

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Hillenbrand, Carole (1999). The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN 1-57958-210-9.The starting point of Khalid's general march to Syria was al-Hira, according to most of the traditional accounts, with the exception of al-Baladhuri, who places it at Ayn al-Tamr. [97] The segment of the general march called the 'desert march' by the sources occurred at an unclear stage after the al-Hira departure. [98] This phase entailed Khalid and his men—numbering between 500 and 800 strong [99]—marching from a well called Quraqir across a vast stretch of waterless desert for six days and five nights until reaching a source of water at a place called Suwa. [100] As his men did not possess sufficient waterskins to traverse this distance with their horses and camels, Khalid had some twenty of his camels increase their typical water intake and sealed their mouths to prevent the camels from eating and consequently spoiling the water in their stomachs; each day of the march, he had a number of the camels slaughtered so his men could drink the water stored in the camels' stomachs. [99] [101] The utilization of the camels as water storage and the locating of the water source at Suwa were the result of advice given to Khalid by his guide, Rafi ibn Amr of the Tayy. [99] [102] It was narrated from Jaabir that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) commanded ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased with him), at the time of the conquest when he was in al-Bat-ha’, to go to the Ka’bah and erase every image that was inside it, and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not enter it until it had been rid of every image that was inside it. I have lived under different systems of life and have had the opportunity of studying various ideologies, but have come to the conclusion that none is as perfect as Islam. None of the systems has got a complete code of a noble life. Only Islam has it; and that is why good men embrace it. Islam is not theoretical; it is practical. It means complete submission to the will of God.' The traditional sources place the final suppression of the Arab tribes of the Ridda wars before March 633, though Caetani insists the campaigns must have continued into 634. [36] The tribes in Bahrayn may have resisted the Muslims until the middle of 634. A number of the early Islamic sources ascribe a role for Khalid on the Bahrayn front after his victory over the Hanifa. Shoufani deems this improbable, while allowing the possibility that Khalid had earlier sent detachments from his army to reinforce the main Muslim commander in Bahrayn, al-Ala al-Hadhrami. [63] Schleifer, J. (1971). "Banuʾl-Ḥārith b. Kaʿb". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch.& Schacht, J. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Volume III: H–Iram (2nded.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. p.223. OCLC 495469525.

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It continues to pierce the heart of countless men and women even today -- in spite of the relentless efforts by people with vested interests, who would like darkness to prevail, instead of the light of Islam. Khalid was appointed supreme commander of the Muslim armies in Syria. [66] Accounts cited by al-Baladhuri, al-Tabari, Ibn A'tham, al-Fasawi (d. 987) and Ibn Hubaysh al-Asadi hold that Abu Bakr appointed Khalid supreme commander as part of his reassignment from Iraq to Syria, citing the general's military talents and record. [112] A single account in al-Baladhuri instead attributes Khalid's appointment to a consensus among the commanders already in Syria, though Athamina asserts "it is inconceivable that a man like [Amr ibn al-As] would agree" to such a decision voluntarily. [113] Upon his accession, Umar may have confirmed Khalid as supreme commander. [114] Donner, Fred M. (1981). The Early Islamic Conquests. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05327-8.Zein, Ibrahim; El-Wakil, Ahmed (2020). "Khālid b. al-Wālid's Treaty with the People of Damascus: Identifying the Source Document through Shared and Competing Historical Memories". Journal of Islamic Studies. 31 (3): 295–328. doi: 10.1093/jis/etaa029. The picture of the Muslim soldier advancing with a sword in one hand and the Quran in the other quite false." A.I. Akram, The Sword of Allah: Khalid bin al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns, Rawalpindi: Nat. Publishing House (1970) ISBN 0-7101-0104-X. Gallery Chief Instructors". Archived from the original on 26 March 2017 . Retrieved 27 January 2017.