The Battle of Mūtah
(On Wednesday, the 6th of November 2024 A.D. (the 4th of Jumādal-͗ūlā 1446 A.H.)
1396 years ago, in the eighth year of the Hijra (629 A.D.), the Prophet sent Hārith bin ´Umayr with a letter to the governor of Busrā .Busrā was a principality and its governor and people were Arabs, but they were Christians and they were subject to the Byzantine state in terms of foreign policy.
When Hārith arrived at Mūtah, (town in present Jordan) Shurahbīl )the governor of Damascus of the Byzantine Kaiser) commended his people to murder him. The Prophet was distressed and after evaluating the incident, he formed an army. The Prophet first appointed Ja´far bin Abī Ṭālib to command the army that consisted of three thousand soldiers and said, “If Ja´far is martyred, let Zayd bin Hāritha replace him; If Zayd is martyred, choose Abdullāh bin Rawāḥa as your commander”.
After the martyrdom of these three commanders, Khālid bin Valīd and Thābit bin Arqam managed to return with the army to Medina with a small amount of potential losses, but inflicted a great loss on Romans, which constituted a great victory to Islam and Muslims.
The battle of Mu'tah is, according to all military criteria, a miracle and a supernatural event. Just imagining these two military powers leads to the conclusion that victory would decisively be in favor of the greater army, but by the will of God, the Muslim combatants who were 3,000 in number, faced more than 100,000 warriors of Roman Empire’s army!
