expedition of Surad ibn Abdullah
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Expedition of Surad ibn Abdullah to attack the people of Jurash took place in 10 AH of the Islamic calendar,{{citation|title=The last years of the Prophet (translated by Isma'il Qurban Husayn)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxG8BsHNw-MC&pg=PA88| first=Al|last=Tabari|date=25 Sep 1990|publisher=State University of New York Press
|isbn=978-0-88706-691-7|page=88}}See pg 88–89{{citation|title=The life of Mahomet (Full free digitized version)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YTwBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA219|first=William|last=Muir|date=August 1878|publisher=Kessinger Publishing Co|page=219}} around Spring{{citation|title=The march from Medina: a revisionist study of the Arab conquests|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozVtAAAAMAAJ&q=Surad|first=John Walter|last=Jandora|year=1990|publisher=Kingston Press, Original from: University of Michigan|page=42|isbn=978-0-940670-33-4}}{{citation|title=Muhammad at Medina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GfAGAQAAIAAJ&q=Surad|first=William Montgomery|last=Watt|year=1981|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=120|isbn=978-0-940670-33-4}} (632 AD in the Gregorian calendar).
Background
Expedition
=Initial attack=
Surad ibn Abdullah then set out on his military expedition to Jurash in Yemen, and Muhammad provided him with an army of Muslim fighters to fulfil his task. At that time, Jurash was a closed city inhabited by Yemeni tribes. The Khath'am tribe sought refuge with the people of Jurash, when they heard of the Muslim marching to the area, they shut themselves inside the closed city and refused to open the doors.
Surad ibn Abdullah besieged the city of Jurash for 1 month, but with no success. But then he pretended to withdraw from the area into the hills, the enemy fell into the trap, and then in pitch battles he defeated the pursuing enemy,{{citation|title=The life of Mahomet (Full free digitized version)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YTwBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA220|first=William|last=Muir|date=August 1878|publisher=Kessinger Publishing Co|page=220}} and Tabari mentions that he inflicted heavy casualties on them.
=Citizens of Jurash killed=
The people of Jurash sent 2 ambassadors to Muhammad for talks of reconciliation, they talked to Muhammad kindly by referring to him, as "The Messenger of God".{{citation|title=The life of Mahomet (Full free digitized version)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YTwBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA206|first=William|last=Muir|date=August 1878|publisher=Kessinger Publishing Co|page=206}}
They then asked Muhammad what was currently happening at Jurash, he said that camels were being slaughtered, to which Abu Bakr or Uthman (which the 2 men were sat next to) said that what Muhammad meant was, that their people have been killed already i.e. slaughtered. Abu Bakr or Umar then said to the 2 men, that they should go to Muhammad, and ask him to pray to remove the affliction (pain and suffering). They did just that and returned to their city to find their people were killed.