They shield their lineage and ancestral estate
with gleaming swords that split skulls beneath the helmets.
Ask the sons of Badr, if ever you meet them,
what the brothers wrought on the day of clash and trial.
When you set out, be truthful with those you encounter;
do not conceal your tidings when you sit in the assemblies.
And say, “We slipped from the talons of a lurking predator—
a heat still smolders in the breast of him who has never faced it.”

The Expedition against Banu al-Mustaliq of Khuzaʿah
Al-Bukhari said: It is the expedition of al-Muraysiʿ (1).
Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq (2) stated that it occurred in the year 6 AH.
Musā ibn ʿUqbah put it in year 4 AH. Al-Nuʿmān ibn Rāshid, reporting from al-Zuhri, held that the Incident of the Slander took place during the expedition of al-Muraysiʿ. Thus al-Bukhari, transmitting from the Maghāzī of Musā ibn ʿUqbah, recorded it as year 4 AH (3).
Al-Bayhaqi (4), citing him and ʿUrwah, placed it in Shaʿbān of year 5 AH.
Al-Wāqidī (5) said it occurred two nights into Shaʿbān, year 5 AH, with seven hundred of the Prophet’s Companions.
Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār (6), after relating the affair of Dhū Qarad, wrote: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ remained in Madinah through part of Jumādā al-Ākhirah and Rajab, then campaigned against Banu al-Mustaliq of Khuzaʿah in Shaʿbān of year 6 AH.”
Ibn Hishām (7) added: He left Abū Dharr al-Ghifāri in charge of Madinah—though some say it was Numeilah ibn ʿAbd-Allah al-Laythi.
Ibn Isḥāq (8) said: ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah, ʿAbd-Allah ibn Abī Bakr, and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabbān each told me part of the account of Banu al-Mustaliq. They related that news reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ that Banu al-Mustaliq were gathering