and wine was declared unlawful while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was besieging Banu al-Nadir (1). That took place only a few months after the Battle of Uhud (2), and Uhud, by unanimous agreement, occurred in Shawwal of the third year after the Hijrah.

As for al-Ṣiddīq, after the idolaters had taken the stake he had deposited, he renewed the wager with them for another fixed term, as mentioned earlier. The Romans then defeated the Persians before the appointed deadline, and Abu Bakr collected their stake. This is stated explicitly in some versions of the hadith (3).

That Roman victory over Persia undoubtedly happened in the year of al-Hudaybiyah; anyone who claims it occurred in the year of the Battle of Badr (4) is mistaken. The evidence is in what is authentically reported in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (5) from Ibn ʿAbbās, on the authority of Abu Sufyān: “When Allah granted Heraclius victory over Persia, he walked from Ḥimṣ to Aelia (Jerusalem) in gratitude to Allah. While he was in Aelia, the letter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reached him. He then sought someone from the Arabs, and Abu Sufyān Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb was brought before him. He said to him, ‘I shall ask you about this man…,’” and he related the hadith. In it he asked, “Does he ever break a covenant?” Abu Sufyān replied, “No. We are presently under a truce with him, and we do not know (6) what he will do during it.”