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The early Muslim–Meccan conflict refer to a series of raids in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his companions participated. The raids were generally offensive [ 1 ] and carried out to gather intelligence or seize back the confiscated Muslim trade goods of caravans financed by the Mushrik of the Quraysh .
[49] [43] [44] The battle took the lives of 14 Muslims, while the Meccan casualties numbered around 70. A similar number of them were captured and were either executed or kept for ransom. [47] [43] [44] Amr ibn Hisham survived the battle, but with mortal injuries. A Muslim warrior found him, decapitated him and presented his head to Muhammad.
The Meccan boycott of the Hashemites by the Quraish was proclaimed in 617. [citation needed] This is a sub-article to Muhammad before Medina. The Meccan boycott of the Hashemites was a public boycott against the clan of Banu Hashim, declared in 616 (7th year of Prophethood) by the leaders of Banu Makhzum and Banu Abd-Shams, two important clans ...
On three occasions, his forces battled with his Meccan opponents, led by his own tribe, the Quraysh. [2] Mecca was thus a no-go area for the Muslims, [ 3 ] with its old sanctuary of the Ka'ba . Although it had been a pilgrimage center from the pre-Islamic times , it seems that the Muslims were enjoined to perform pilgrimage to the Ka'ba only in ...
In March 624, Muhammad led some three hundred warriors in a raid on a Meccan merchant caravan. The Muslims set an ambush for the Meccans at Badr. [21] Aware of the plan, the Meccan caravan eluded the Muslims. Meanwhile, a force from Mecca was sent to protect the caravan. The force did not return home upon hearing that the caravan was safe.
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The pre-Islamic rivalry between the two "cousin" branches of the Quraysh tribe had proved to be generative and formative in the later decisive political conflicts and alliances that served in the making of Shi'ism out of the grand schism after the death of Prophet Muhammed.