Some of you might be thinking, like me, why no army challenged muslims. May be a virus cleaned them all?
Muhammad and his forces marched northwards to Tabuk, near the Gulf of Aqaba in October 630[2][4] (Rajab AH 9). It was his largest and last military expedition.[2] Ali ibn Abi Talib, who participated in several other expedition of Muhammad, did not participate in Muhammad's Tabuk expedition upon Muhammad's instructions, as he held command at Medina.[5] After arriving at Tabuk and camping there, Muhammad's army prepared to face the Byzantine invasion.[6] Muhammad spent twenty days at Tabuk, scouting the area, making alliances with local chiefs.[4] With no sign of the Byzantine army,[2] he decided to return to Medina.[1] Though Muhammad did not encounter a Byzantine army at Tabuk, according to the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, "this show of force demonstrated his intention to challenge the Byzantines for control of the northern part of the caravan route from Mecca to Syria".[2]
Muhammad and his forces marched northwards to Tabuk, near the Gulf of Aqaba in October 630[2][4] (Rajab AH 9). It was his largest and last military expedition.[2] Ali ibn Abi Talib, who participated in several other expedition of Muhammad, did not participate in Muhammad's Tabuk expedition upon Muhammad's instructions, as he held command at Medina.[5] After arriving at Tabuk and camping there, Muhammad's army prepared to face the Byzantine invasion.[6] Muhammad spent twenty days at Tabuk, scouting the area, making alliances with local chiefs.[4] With no sign of the Byzantine army,[2] he decided to return to Medina.[1] Though Muhammad did not encounter a Byzantine army at Tabuk, according to the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, "this show of force demonstrated his intention to challenge the Byzantines for control of the northern part of the caravan route from Mecca to Syria".[2]
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