The war of Uhud

   Greeting, in today's post I'll be telling 10 facts of the war of Uhud that you might have known. Let's start with the first fact. Did you know, one of the reasons the war started was because the Quraisy wanted to retrieve the route to Syams (where the trading market is). The Quraisy in Mecca would need to pass through Medina to get to to Syams (which in the middle of the Roman empire and Persia), but because they do not want to pay tax to the Muslims in Medina for passing through, they decided to start a war and wanted to make Madinah as their property so they do not have to pay.

   While the Quraisy was moving to Medina, the Muslims had a spy spying on them, he was Saidina Abbas R.A. He was Prophet Muhammad's uncle.

   At the morning of the war, there was one man who converted to Islam.

   The Muslims left for Uhud on Friday after the Friday prayers and fought on a Saturday afternoon. This is during the month of Syawal.

   When the Muslims were heading to Uhud, there was one man name Abdullah bin Ubayy decided to betray the Muslim army and pull himself out from the army and 299 other people followed him. These people are called the Munafiks, they pretend to be a Muslim but they don't do the things required to be a Muslim. This has cause the Muslim army to decrease by 300 people even before the war started.

   Rasullulah offered his army to use his sword and Zubair bin Awwam wanted it but Rasullah gave one condition, it is ti us the sword forever until it is broken. After that, Abu Durjanah accepted the condition and he was the one to get the sword.

   Rasullulah was protected by nine people, seven ansars and two sahabats. They were assigned to help Rasulullah escape after they realised the muslims were losing. The ansar decided to be the decoys but the kafir was clever enough and got to Rasulullah anyways. The seven ansars were believed to died in matyr.

   After Rasulullah cried, the Jabal Uhud also cried and turned reddish to represent blood. It is said that Jabal Uhud will be one of the mountains in jannah.

   When Rasulullah checked the army before the battle started, he found underage kids in the army. They wanted to contribute but Rasulullah said you have to be above 15 year old to participate so four of them had to return but  some were accepted and one of them was Rafiq bin Khadij. He was accepted because of his exceptional archery skills.

   After the war, they started collecting the corpses of the Muslims and found one body that was in really bad condition that no one could recognize who it was, but miraculously his sister recognized him by looking at his finger.

   That is all I have for today. I hope we all learned something about the war of Uhud through this post and I hope to see you guys again.