The word · History
تَبُوك
Tabuk
The last expedition the Prophet led, a long march north in year nine that ended without battle.
Also written · Battle of Tabuk · Ghazwat Tabuk · Jaysh al-Usrah · Army of Hardship · Tabook · Tebuk · Jang e Tabuk · Expedition of Tabuk · Tabuk expedition · Tabouk
The meaning
What Tabuk means in Islam
It was called the army of hardship: high summer, scarce water, ripe harvests left behind, and a distant enemy. Uthman equipped a large part of it from his own wealth. No fighting took place. Its lasting story is the three Companions who simply failed to go and would not lie about why; the community was told to shun them for fifty nights until Surah at-Tawbah announced that Allah had turned to them, a passage that is really about honesty when a lie would have been easy.
Evidence · Qur’an · Stated directly in the Qur’an
Read beside it
Rooms that name it
- He told the truth about staying behind and lost fifty daysA Light · Ka'b ibn Malik · Tabuk and Madinah, 630 CE
- Tabuk: The Hardship ArmyThe Path · chapter 44
- Surah At-TawbahSurah 9 · The Repentance
Words that sit beside it
- Uthman ibn AffanThe third caliph, called Dhun-Nurayn, who fixed the Qur'an in one agreed written text.عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّان
- Battle of Mu'tahThe first clash with Byzantine forces, in year eight, where three appointed commanders fell in turn.مُؤْتَة
- GhazwahA military expedition the Prophet led in person, as opposed to one he sent out under another.الغَزْوَة
- Hajjat al-WadaThe only hajj the Prophet performed after it was made obligatory, in year ten.حَجَّةُ الوَدَاع
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- Imam MuslimThe compiler of the second Sahih, a student and close friend of al-Bukhari.مُسْلِمُ بْنُ الحَجَّاج
- Khulafa RashidunThe four caliphs after the Prophet: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali.الخُلَفَاءُ الرَّاشِدُون
- Safa and MarwahTwo small hills in Makkah, now enclosed in a corridor, walked between during hajj and umrah.الصَّفَا وَالمَرْوَة