What happened at the Battle of Badr?
Badr was the first decisive battle — fewer than 320 Muslims against nearly three times their number. Ibn Kathīr's account traces the intelligence, the Prophet's ﷺ duʿāʾ, and the angelic reinforcement, anchored to the Qurʾān and the classical sīrah sources.
2 passages from 2 books in the library
The classical approach.
These passages are drawn from 2 books by Ibn Battuta and Imam al-Ghazali — part of the classical Sunni tradition that carries over a thousand years of reflection on the Qurʾān, the authentic Sunnah, and the consensus of the early community. Nothing below is a paraphrase. The words are the scholars' own, translated from the original Arabic manuscripts.
14th century · Tangier, Morocco
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"There was a judge there from among the virtuous and generous scholars following the Shafi'i school, named Badr al-Din al-Mabari, who also taught knowledge."
11th–12th century · Ṭūs, Khurāsān
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"Weina Ibn Badr Al-Fazari once remarked by God. I have a grown son who is married and has a beard and I have never kissed him"
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