The campaign of the Trench, then the campaign against Banū Qurayẓah; after that the campaign against Banū Lihyān of Hudhayl; then the campaign of Dhī Qarad; then the campaign against Banū al-Muṣṭaliq of Khuzaʿah; next came the campaign of al-Ḥudaybiyah—he had not set out to fight, yet the idolaters prevented him—followed by the campaign of Khaybar; then the compensatory ʿUmrah (ʿUmrat al-Qaḍāʾ)(1); then the campaign of the Conquest; [then the campaign of Ḥunayn](2); thereafter the campaign of al-Ṭāʾif; and finally the campaign of Tabūk.

Ibn Isḥāq(3) said: He fought in nine of these campaigns: Badr,(4) Uḥud, the Trench, Qurayẓah, al-Muṣṭaliq, Khaybar, the Conquest, Ḥunayn, and al-Ṭāʾif.

I say: All of this has already been set out in detail, in its proper places, together with the corroborating reports and proofs—praise be to Allah.

Ibn Isḥāq(5) also said: His expeditions and detachments—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—numbered thirty-eight in all, comprising both larger missions (baʿth) and smaller detachments (sariyyah). He then proceeded—may Allah bless him—to list them individually.

We have already presented all, or most, of that in its own context—praise and gratitude belong to Allah.

Let us now summarize what Ibn Isḥāq recorded:

• The dispatch of ʿUbaydah ibn al-Ḥārith to the lower end of Thaniyyat al-Marrah.(6)

• Then the dispatch of Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib to the coastal region of al-ʿĪṣ; some scholars place this before the dispatch of ʿUbaydah, as mentioned earlier—Allah knows best.

• The dispatch of Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ to al-Kharrār.(7)

• The dispatch of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jahsh to Nakhlah.(8)

• The dispatch of Zayd ibn Ḥārithah to al-Qaradah.

• The dispatch of Muḥammad ibn Maslamah against Kaʿb ibn al-Ashraf.

• The dispatch of Murthad ibn Abī Murthad to al-Rajīʿ.

• The dispatch of al-Munẓir ibn ʿAmr to Biʾr Maʿūnah.