{
 "id": "event/mutah-khalid-command-withdrawal",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "mutah-khalid-command-withdrawal",
 "label": {
  "ar": "قيادة خالد بن الوليد وانسحاب الجيش",
  "en": "Khalid ibn al-Walid's command and the army's withdrawal"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بعد استشهاد القادة الثلاثة رفع ثابت بن أقرم الراية ورفض تولي القيادة، فاجتمع المسلمون على خالد بن الوليد. دافع خالد عن الجيش ثم انسحب بهم سالمين. وروى ابن هشام عن الزهري رواية مغايرة أن الله فتح عليهم. ويخبر خالد نفسه عند البخاري: «لقد انقطعت في يدي يوم مؤتة تسعة أسياف، فما بقي في يدي إلا صفيحة يمانية» {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 4265}.",
  "en": "After the three commanders' deaths, Thabit ibn Aqram picked up the standard and declined command; the men chose Khalid ibn al-Walid. Khalid maneuvered defensively and withdrew the army intact. Ibn Hisham cites al-Zuhri with a divergent tradition that God granted victory under Khalid."
 },
 "stub": false,
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 629.6658384497971,
  "latest": 629.747975659975
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0629-09~",
   "hijri": "0008-05",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0629-09~",
   "hijri": "0008-05",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
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 "data": {
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   "start": {
    "edtf": "0629-09~",
    "hijri": "0008-05",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ibn-hisham-saqqa juz' 4 pp. 21, 25",
   "generated_by": "kiro",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-4"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa",
   "source/sahih-al-bukhari"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "kiro; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 21, 25; Zuhri variant (victory) vs Ibn Ishaq (withdrawal) noted in battle-of-mutah prose"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بعد مقتل القادة الثلاثة في [[event/battle-of-mutah|مؤتة]] رفع [[person/thabit-ibn-aqram|ثابت بن أقرم]] الراية ورفض تولي القيادة. فاجتمع المسلمون على [[person/khalid-ibn-al-walid|خالد بن الوليد]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}\n\nدافع خالد عن الجيش ثم انسحب بهم سالمين. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "روايتان",
     "markdown": "روى ابن هشام عن الزهري رواية مغايرة، فيها أن الله فتح عليهم. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}\n\nويروي البخاري عن خالد قوله: «لقد انقطعت في يدي يوم مؤتة تسعة أسياف، فما بقي في يدي إلا صفيحة يمانية». {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 4265}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mutah-khalid-command-withdrawal",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "After the three commanders were killed at [[event/battle-of-mutah|Mu'tah]], [[person/thabit-ibn-aqram|Thabit ibn Aqram]] raised the banner and refused to take command. The Muslims then gathered around [[person/khalid-ibn-al-walid|Khalid ibn al-Walid]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}\n\nKhalid defended the army and then withdrew with them safely. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Two accounts",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hisham relates from al-Zuhri a different account, in which God gave them victory. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}\n\nAl-Bukhari relates from Khalid his saying: \"Nine swords broke in my hand on the day of Mu'tah, and there remained in my hand only a Yemeni blade.\" {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 4265}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mutah-khalid-command-withdrawal",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "[[event/battle-of-mutah|موتہ]] میں تینوں کمانڈروں کی شہادت کے بعد [[person/thabit-ibn-aqram|ثابت بن اقرم]] نے جھنڈا اٹھایا اور کمان سنبھالنے سے انکار کر دیا۔ پھر مسلمانوں نے [[person/khalid-ibn-al-walid|خالد بن ولید]] پر اتفاق کیا۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}\n\nخالد نے لشکر کا دفاع کیا اور پھر اسے سلامتی کے ساتھ واپس لے آئے۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دو روایتیں",
     "markdown": "ابن ہشام نے زہری سے ایک مختلف روایت نقل کی ہے، جس میں ہے کہ اللہ نے انھیں فتح عطا کی۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}\n\nبخاری خالد کا یہ قول روایت کرتے ہیں: «موتہ کے دن میری نو تلواریں ٹوٹ گئیں، اور میرے ہاتھ میں یمنی ڈھال کے سوا کچھ نہ بچا۔» {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 4265}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mutah-khalid-command-withdrawal",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
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  "passage/bukhari-4265",
  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
  "event/battle-of-buzakha",
  "event/mutah-martyrdom-of-ibn-rawaha",
  "event/mutah-martyrdom-of-jafar",
  "event/mutah-martyrdom-of-zayd",
  "event/mutah-return-to-medina"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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