He said: In that very year Zayd ibn Hārithah led an expedition to al-Jumūm. They captured a woman of Muzaynah named Ḥalīmah; she guided them to the tribe’s encampment, whereupon they seized livestock and prisoners—among them her own husband. The Prophet ﷺ then granted her and her husband their freedom.

During that same year Zayd ibn Hārithah marched to al-Ṭarf against Banū Thaʿlabah with fifteen men. The Bedouins took fright and scattered, and he carried off twenty of their camels. He was absent for four nights.

That year also witnessed Zayd’s expedition to al-ʿIṣ in Jumādā al-Ūlā. They captured the wealth that was with Abū al-ʿĀṣ. He sought sanctuary with Zaynab, daughter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and she extended her protection to him.

Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm related to me from his father: Dihyah al-Kalbī returned from the Emperor, who had rewarded him with money. When he reached Ḥusmā, some men of Judhām waylaid him, blocked the road, and robbed him. He came straight to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ—before even entering his own house—and told him what had happened. The Prophet ﷺ thereupon dispatched Zayd ibn Hārithah to Ḥusmā, which lies beyond Wādī al-Qurā; this was in Jumādā al-Ākhirah.

After that Zayd led an expedition to Wādī al-Qurā in the month of Rajab.

He [al-Wāqidī] also said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar told me, on the authority of Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUtbah, that ʿAlī (may Allah ennoble his countenance) set out with one hundred men to Fadak against a clan of Banū Saʿd ibn Bakr, for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had learned that they