Editing Medina (section)

====Battle of Uhud====
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[[File:Mount Uhud.JPG|thumb|right|[[Mount Uhud]], with the old ''Mosque of the Leader of Martyrs'' ({{Lang|ar|جامع سيد الشهداء}}), named after Muhammad's uncle, [[Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib|Hamza ibn Abdul Muttalib]], in the foreground. The mosque was demolished in 2012 and a new, larger mosque with the same name was built in its place.<ref name="madainjameh">{{cite web |title=Jameh Syed al-Shohada Mosque |url=https://madainproject.com/jameh_syed_al_shohada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506143705/https://madainproject.com/jameh_syed_al_shohada |archive-date=6 May 2020 |access-date=6 May 2020 |website=Madain Project}}</ref>|300x300px]]

In the year 625, [[Abu Sufyan ibn Harb]], a senior chieftain of Mecca who later converted to Islam, led a Meccan force against Medina. Muhammad marched out to meet the [[Quraysh]]i army with an estimated 1,000 troops, but just as the army approached the battlefield, 300 men under [[Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy|'Abd Allah ibn Ubayy]] withdrew, dealing a severe blow to the Muslim army's [[morale]]. Muhammad continued marching with his now 700-strong force and ordered a group of 50 archers to climb a small hill, now called ''[[Al Romat Mountain|Jabal ar-Rummaah]]'' (The Archers' Hill) to keep an eye on the Meccan's [[cavalry]] and to provide protection to the rear of the Muslim's army. As the battle heated up, the Meccans were forced to retreat. The frontline was pushed further and further away from the archers and foreseeing the battle to be a victory for the Muslims, the archers decided to leave their posts to pursue the retreating Meccans. A small party, however, stayed behind; pleading the rest to not disobey Muhammad's orders.

Seeing that the archers were starting to descend from the hill, [[Khalid ibn al-Walid]] commanded his unit to ambush the hill and his cavalry unit pursued the descending archers were systematically slain by being caught in the plain ahead of the hill and the frontline, watched upon by their desperate comrades who stayed behind up in the hill who were shooting arrows to thwart the raiders, but with little to no effect. However, the Meccans did not capitalize on their advantage by invading Medina and returned to Mecca. The Madanis (people of Medina) suffered heavy losses, and Muhammad was injured.<ref>Esposito, John L. "Islam." Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices, edited by Thomas Riggs, vol. 1: Religions and Denominations, Gale, 2006, pp. 349–379.</ref>