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The Qur'an recorded the defeat at Uhud in detail

At Uhud in 625, a year after the victory at Badr, the Muslims were beaten. Archers left the hill they had been told to hold, the line was turned, some seventy men were killed including the Prophet's ﷺ uncle Hamza, and he himself was wounded in the face. What is unusual is what happened to the account. Surah Al Imran goes through the day at length and assigns the cause: they had disputed and disobeyed after being shown what they wanted. The community's own scripture preserves its worst military day, with the reasons named. Very few religious traditions keep a defeat in the canon and refuse to explain it as anyone else's fault.

Mount Uhud, north of Madinah · 625 CE

Source · Qur'an 3:152