Battle of Hunain | conquest of Makkah | جنگ حنین، فتح مکہ | @islamichistory813

Battle of Hunain or Ghawa Hunain is one of the few battles mentioned by name in Quran. Speaking about the Battle of Hunain, the Glorious Quran says:(Surah At-Taubah: 25-27)

“Allah has already given you victory in many regions and [even] on the day of Hunayn, when your great number pleased you, but it did not avail you at all, and the earth was confining for you with its vastness; then you turned back, fleeing.

Then Allah sent down His tranquillity upon His Messenger and upon the believers and sent down soldiers angels whom you did not see and punished those who disbelieved. And that is the recompense of the disbelievers.

Then Allah will accept repentance after that for whom He wills; and Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.”

Hunain was the last battle led personally by the Messenger of Allah (S.A.W.) and it was fought by the Muslims against the Badawi / Beduin tribe of Hawazin and the tribe of Thaqif (neighboring tribes of Makkah), in 630 CE (Shawwal, 8 AH), in the Hunain valley, situated approx. 18-20 Km on route from Makkah to Taaif.

Background of the Battle:

The Hawazin tribe had been longstanding enemies of the people of Makkah. When tribe of heard the news of the Prophet (S.A.W.) and the Conquest of Makkah, they made an agreement with another tribe from Taaif, called Thaqif, to fight the Muslims and destroy them before they could spread their religion throughout Arabia. More tribes such as Nasr, Jusham, Bani Hilal and other tribes also joined these two tribes against the Muslims.

Malik Ibn Awuf, the chief of Hawazin tribe, put forward a plan. He ordered his men to bring their families and belongings with them thinking that this would compel his men to fight fiercely. Durayd, an old blind man, blamed Malik for doing so arguing that,

"If a man is so cowardly as to leave the battle, then he will leave his family as well. The women and children will be a great worry for us and if we are defeated, all our wealth will fall into the enemy’s hands."

But Malik ignored this advice and stuck to his original plan.

When the Prophet (S.A.W.) heard what the enemy tribes were planning to attack Muslims, he (S.A.W.) found himself forced to fight and ordered his army towards Taaif.

Messenger of Allah (S.A.W.) had twelve-thousand armed soldiers under his command. Out of them, ten-thousand were those, who had accompanied him from Madinah and had taken part in the conquest of Makkah and the other two-thousand were from amongst Quraish, who had embraced Islam recently. The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W.) made Attab Ibn Asid Ibn Abu Al-Aas Ibn Umayyah Ibn Abd Shams in charge of Makkah to look after the men who had stayed behind. Then he (S.A.W.) went forward to meet Hawazin tribe and their allies.

On the night of 10th of Shawwal, the Muslim army arrived at Hunain valley. News of Muslim Army’s arrival was conveyed to Malik bin Awf by his spies. He gave orders to his army of four-thousand men to hide inside the valley and lurk for the Muslims on roads, entrances, and narrow hiding places. His orders to his men were to hurl stones at Muslims whenever they caught sight of them and then to make one-man attacks against them.

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