“Allah has indeed fulfilled the vision He showed to His Messenger in truth: you shall surely enter the Sacred Mosque, God willing, in security, your heads shaved or your hair cut short, having no fear. He knew what you did not know, and He granted, before that, a near victory.” (al-Fath, 48:27) – that is, the victory of Khaybar.

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Al-Bayhaqī (1) mentions here the expedition of Ibn Abī al-ʿAwjāʾ al-Sulamī against Banū Sulaym. He then transmits, through his chain, from al-Wāqidī (2):

Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, who said:

When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned from the ʿUmrah of Compensation—he came back in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the seventh year—he dispatched Ibn Abī al-ʿAwjāʾ al-Sulamī at the head of fifty men. They marched toward Banū Sulaym, and with them was a spy belonging to that tribe. Once they had left Madinah, the spy went to his people, warned them, and informed them of the Muslim force. The tribe therefore mustered a large army. Ibn Abī al-ʿAwjāʾ arrived to find them fully prepared.

When the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw the enemy and their numbers, they called them to Islam, but the tribesmen showered them with arrows and would not listen, saying, “We have no need of what you invite us to.” The skirmish continued for a while, and reinforcements kept coming to the enemy until they encircled the Muslims from every side. A fierce battle ensued until the bulk of the Muslim detachment was killed. Ibn Abī al-ʿAwjāʾ himself suffered many wounds, yet he managed—with the few survivors who remained—to make it back to Madinah on the first day of Ṣafar in the eighth year.

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Al-Wāqidī (3) says: In Muḥarram of this very year—that is, the seventh year—the Messenger of Allah ﷺ restored his daughter Zaynab to her husband Abū al-ʿĀṣ ibn al-Rabīʿ; we have already discussed that matter. During the same year Ḥāṭib ibn Abī Baltaʿah returned from the Muqawqis, bringing with him Māriyah and her sister Sīrīn, both of whom had embraced Islam on the journey, together with a eunuch servant.

Al-Wāqidī (4) further states that in this year the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had his pulpit constructed, consisting of two steps and a seat. The soundest report we possess, however, is that it was actually made in the eighth year.