Editing Ambush (section)

===Arabia during Muhammad's era===
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According to Muslim tradition, Islamic Prophet [[Muhammad]] used ambush tactics in his military campaigns. His first such use was during the [[Caravan raids]]. In the Kharrar caravan raid, [[Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas]] was ordered to lead a raid against the [[Quraysh]]. His group consisted of about twenty Muhajirs. This raid was about a month after the previous one. Sa'd, with his soldiers, set up an ambush in the valley of [[Kharrar]] on the road to Mecca and waited to raid a Meccan caravan returning from Syria. However, the caravan had already passed and the Muslims returned to Medina without any loot.<ref name="Mubarakpuri, The Sealed Nectar p. 127">Mubarakpuri, The Sealed Nectar (Free Version), p. 127.</ref><ref name="Haykal 1976">{{citation|title=The Life of Muhammad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fOyO-TSo5nEC |first=Husayn |last=Haykal|year=1976|publisher=Islamic Book Trust |isbn=978-983-9154-17-7|pages=217–218}}</ref>

Arab tribes during Muhammad's era also used ambush tactics.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gabriel|first=Richard A.|date=17 May 2007|title=Muhammad: The Warrior Prophet|url=https://www.historynet.com/muhammad-the-warrior-prophet.htm|access-date=24 June 2021|website=HistoryNet|language=en-US|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624203723/https://www.historynet.com/muhammad-the-warrior-prophet.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>  One example retold in Muslim tradition is said to have taken place during the [[First Raid on Banu Thalabah]]. The Banu Thalabah tribe were already aware of the impending attack; so they lay in wait for the Muslims. When Muhammad ibn Maslama arrived at the site, the Banu Thalabah with 100 men ambushed the Muslims while they were making preparation to sleep and, after a brief resistance, killed them all except for Muhammad ibn Maslama, who feigned death. A Muslim who happened to pass that way found him and assisted him to return to [[Medina]]. The raid was unsuccessful.<ref name=mubarakpuri >{{citation|title=The Sealed Nectar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ppPqzawIrIC|first=Saifur Rahman Al|last=Mubarakpuri|year=2005|publisher=Darussalam Publications|page=205|isbn=9798694145923}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>