Battle of Badar:

Battle of badar took place in 624, in the second year of Hijra. The immediate reason was the caravan
of abu sufyan which was coming back from Syria. Quresh thought the Muslims were going to attack
the caravan. The Quresh were expecting this attack due to the background events which were taking
place for many days. Abu suffyan stopped the caravan on his way and sent a man to makkah who gave
the message that the caravan was attacked. Abu Jahl was ready with 1000 armed men and their
intention was to eliminate Madina completely.

Prophet took his people from Madina. They were 313 and poorly equipped. There were 82
Muhajreen and 231 Ansaar who willingly went with Muhajreen. There were only 2 horses and 70
camels in the Muslim army.

The prophet stayed near Badar which is about 60 miles away from Madina. During his journey, the
prophet prayed to god that of this small group was eliminated, no one would name Islam in future. It
was 17th Ramadan when the battle took place. According to tradition, the battle started in the early
morning. First three men of Quresh came out and invited Muslims to fight against the. From
Muslim army, 3 Ansaars came out to fight against them. From Muslim army, three Ansaars came out
to fight but the Quresh refused and asked Muhajreen to fight. Now Ali imam Ali, hamza and ubaidah
bin jarrah came out and killed all three men of Quresh. After this the battle started.

Soon god decided in favor of Muslims. The Quran says that: allah sent 1000 Angles to help
Muslims. Sura Al Anfaal says:“He showed them to you as few in your eyes and made you
contemptible in their eyes.”

The battle ended soon in which seventy pagans were killed, seventy were captured and fourteen
Muslims were martyred. Almost all the pagans were prominent lords of Makkah. Abu jahl was killed
by two ansari boys. Against the traditions of Arabs, Muslims treated the pagans with mercy. Those
who could pay the ransom were released and those who could not pay and were educated were asked
to teach children of Madina for sometime.