Then the Prophet ﷺ distributed its spoils (1) at al-Jiʿirrānah and performed the ʿumrah of al-Jiʿirrānah. He next laid siege to al-Ṭāʾif, but the people of al-Ṭāʾif would not face him in marching columns and battle lines (2); instead, they fought from behind a wall.
The last expedition in which the two sides met advancing and standing in formation (3) was the battle of Ḥunayn.
Badr had been the first engagement in which the Muslims prevailed over the chiefs of the unbelievers. Allah killed and captured their leaders (4) despite the Muslims’ small numbers and weakness: they were only three hundred and a few more, owning no more than two horses, and every two or three men would take turns riding a single camel. Their enemy outnumbered them by more than three to one and surpassed them in strength, equipment, prestige, (5) and swagger.
The following year the unbelievers marched against Medina, where the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions were. The Prophet ﷺ and his Companions (6) went out to confront them with roughly one quarter of the enemy’s number, leaving their families in Medina and not moving them elsewhere. At first the charge belonged to the Muslims, but then it shifted to the unbelievers (7), and most of the Muslim army fled, leaving only a small band around the Prophet ﷺ; some of them were killed and others wounded. They were intent on killing the Prophet ﷺ.