Arabic manuscript on paper, 25 lines to each page, written in black Hijazi script, titles and catchwords written in red ink, with Arabic poems throughout. With different seal impressions and ownership statements. The 3rd volume of Kitab Fi Maghazi, About Abu Bakr's succession of the prophet 'khilafat Abu Bakr' and the main events during it. It is a very important part of the 4 volumes as it covers a very critical period of the history of the Islam, dangers and the challenges facing the new caliphate. -After the death of the prophet, a gathering of the Ansar took place in the Saqifa resulting, after some turbulences, in choosing Abu bakr. -Ridda Wars': just after the death of the Prophet, troubles emerged soon after Abu Bakr's succession, with several Arab tribes launching revolts, threatening the unity and stability of the new community and state. These insurgencies and the caliphate's responses to them are collectively referred to as the Ridda wars. The caliph distributed the available manpower among 11 main corps. 26.5 by 18 cm.
-The conquest of the Levant: Abu Bakr, reasoning that it was inevitable that one of these powers (Byzantine and Persian empire) would launch a preemptive strike against the youthful caliphate, decided that it was better to deliver the first blow himself. *Battle of Ajnadayn: it was the first major pitched battle between the Byzantine (Roman) Empire and the army of the Arab Rashidun Caliphate, with a decisive Muslim victory. Battle of Fahl with a great victory for Khalid Ibn Al-Walid. *Battle of Yarmouk: consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River, with a complete Muslim victory that ended Byzantine rule in Syria, is regarded as one of the most decisive battles in military history. After Ajnadayn the Muslim army conquered Damascus after a long siege, the army continued their march northward and in late 635 AD, Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah sent Khalid ibn Walid with his mobile guard to begin the siege of Emesa/Hums. After Yarmouk victory, Umar, the new Caliph, visited Jerusalem and gave its people "al-ʿUhda al-ʿUmariyya, after receiving the keys of the city from the Patriarch Sophronius.
In Kitab Fi Maghazi the author reviews in his four volumes the date of the beginning of Islam and parts of the life of the Messenger of God, and the invasions that took place in his days and the days of his first three successors. In all of this, he sought assistance from the works of his predecessors from among the imams of the Prophet’s biography, such as Ibn Ishaq, al-Madani, Musa ibn Uqba and al-Waqdi, but he omitted from these sources the lengthy genealogies, conflicting news and narrations. he kept only what was confirmed by the authentic hadiths narrated from the trusted companions and their relatives.
Author: Abu Rabi Sulaiman ibn Musa Al-Kala'i (555/1160-634/1237) Andalusian historian, writer, poet, Hadith scholar and Friday liturgical preacher, and ceremonial court orator in the service of the Almohads in Valencia. He was born in 565 AH/1160 AD, Murcia, and soon his family moved with him to Valencia and settled there. Then he traveled in 587 AH to seek knowledge from scholars in Andalusia, and visited Seville, Granada, Shattah and Malaga, and received Ijazeh from many scholars and sheikhs. When he returned to Valencia, the scholars flock to him from everywhere to learn from him and get an Ijazah in different sciences. He was famed for his eloquence as an orator and belletrist as He was an advanced imam in the science of recitation, He was skilled in the sciences of the Quran and intonation. He wrote several books on the Hadith, fully aware of its methods, controlling the rulings of Al-Isnad. wrote more than 25 works but he was best known for this book. Al-Kala'i was seventy years old when he participated in military campaign against t the huge Spanish army, at Anticha, seven miles from the city of Valencia, he carried the flag until he was killed, on Thursday - 20 Dhu al-Hijjah 634 AH/1237 AD.
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