The word · History
حُنَيْن
Hunayn
The ambush weeks after the conquest of Makkah, where confidence in numbers nearly cost the battle.
Also written · Battle of Hunayn · Hunain · Honain · Ghazwat Hunayn · Huneyn · Jang e Hunain · Hunayn valley · Hunein · Battle of Hunain · Awtas
The meaning
What Hunayn means in Islam
Twelve thousand Muslims marched out against Hawazin and Thaqif, and some said openly that they would not be beaten today for smallness of number. Archers hidden in the narrow valley broke the front and most of the army turned; a small group stood with the Prophet until the line re formed. Surah at-Tawbah names Hunayn and says their numbers pleased them but availed them nothing. The captured wealth was distributed in a way that tested the Ansar, and his answer to them made them weep.
Evidence · Qur’an · Stated directly in the Qur’an
Read beside it
Rooms that name it
- An Iraqi oculist drew a cataract out through a needleA Light · Ammar al-Mawsili and Ali ibn Isa · c. 1000 CE
- Hunayn: 12,000 TestedThe Path · chapter 43
- Her dowry was that he become MuslimA Light · Umm Sulaym bint Milhan · Madinah
Words that sit beside it
- Fath MakkahThe Prophet's return to Makkah in year eight, taken almost without a fight.فَتْحُ مَكَّة
- AnsarThe Muslims of Madinah who took in the emigrants from Makkah and shared everything with them.الأَنْصَار
- GhazwahA military expedition the Prophet led in person, as opposed to one he sent out under another.الغَزْوَة
- TabukThe last expedition the Prophet led, a long march north in year nine that ended without battle.تَبُوك
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