with them; his releasing himself and his Companions from the state of consecration at al-Hudaybiyyah, their return that same year, the conquest of Khaybar, the compensatory ʿumrah (ʿUmrat al-Qaḍāʾ), and the ʿumrah of al-Jiʿrānah; likewise, his siege of the people of al-Ṭāʾif, the earlier conquest of Mecca, his expedition against the Christians in the year of Tabūk, and his dispatch of an army to face them at Muʾtah on the frontier of al-Shām near the fortress known as al-Karak, and the like of