He then outlined the Prophet’s guidance (peace and blessings be upon him) concerning jihad and military campaigns, the distribution of war booty and additional grants, stern warnings against misappropriating booty, and his guidance concerning prisoners of war, captives, spies, slaves belonging to the polytheists, captured land, and related matters.
He then devoted a chapter to the Prophet’s guidance concerning guarantees of safety, peace agreements, dealings with the disbelievers’ envoys, the collection of the jizyah tax, and related matters. In it, he discussed the Jewish tribes in Medina, their successive betrayals of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and his fighting against them and expelling them. (He described these three campaigns against the Jews in detail here, then recounted them briefly in their proper places among the military campaigns.) He also mentioned the Prophet’s peace agreements with Quraysh and the people of Khaybar.
He then devoted a chapter to “A Brief Account of His Military Campaigns and Expeditions,” which forms the core of this volume and is its longest chapter, comprising approximately two-thirds of it. He presented the campaigns in chronological order, following most of them with an account of the lessons and rulings to be drawn from their events, and the divine wisdom they reveal.
He then devoted a chapter to the Arab delegations that came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) after his return from Tabūk, explaining the legal insights contained in their accounts. He concluded with a chapter on the Prophet’s letters to kings and rulers.
This section ends here, although the following events remained from ʿUyūn al-Athar—the author’s source for much of what he recounts, particularly in the latter half: the expedition led by ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib to Yemen, the Farewell Hajj, and the expedition led by Usāmah ibn Zayd to Syria (which was pending when the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, died). Ibn Sayyid al-Nās mentioned these three events after discussing the Prophet’s letters to kings. The author had already discussed the Farewell Hajj in the section on acts of worship, but he made no mention of the two expeditions.