Back to Medina

Both the sides stopped the war as night fell upon and that continued till the dawn. In the meanwhile, Khalid Ibn Walid adopted an innovative strategy. He asked a substantial trunk of his army to line up behind the army. His idea was to create an impression in the minds of enemy that a batch of new army has come from Medina to strengthen the existing army at the command of Khalid Ibn Walid. That worked very well. Though the number of Muslim army was only three thousand, the courage and determination of the Muslims had surprised the Byssantian army. A fairly good number of their soldiers were put to death at the hands of the Muslim army; in addition, the impression created by the strategy adopted by Khalid also generated fear in their minds and they finally decided to withdraw from the battle field. Khalid did not try to go forward to attack the Byssantians. The Muslim army was happy about their withdrawal. They returned to Medina. It was a war that could not have been won by the Muslims. The enemy army also could not make any gain. 

When Khalid and the Muslim army reached Medina, Mohammed and his companions gave them a warm reception. Abdulla son of Jaffer, who became a martyr in the war, was brought there. Mohammed took the boy in his hand. Mohammed was very sad about the death of Jaffer and Zaid. He went to the residence of Jaffer and visited his wife Asma, who was waiting for the arrival of her husband. Mohammed asked her to bring their children. He hugged them. Tears rolled down from the eyes of Mohammed. Asma then realized the tragedy that has befallen upon her. Suppressing her sorrow, she asked Mohammed why he was weeping. She also asked him whether he got any information about Jaffer and other companions. Mohammed replied, “Yes they have become martyrs.” Mohammed was weeping and that was a surprise. Mohammed asked the persons assembeled there to prepare food for them and was about to return home. Then he saw a daughter of Zaid coming from the opposite direction. He shook her shoulder and started weeping.

After a few weeks since Khalid Ibn Walid Khalid returned, an encounter took place on the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula with Byssantians. The army under the command of Amray Ibn was sent to Syria. When the army reached at Dhetu Halas Amridi Ibn felt that he required t more men and he wrote to Mohammed requesting to send an additional army and Mohammed send an additional army under the command of Ubaid with the advice that there should not be any difference between the two commanders. The encounter with the Byssantian army, the Muslims came out successful. 

Justice P K Shamsuddin