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Badr

بدر
Definition

The first major military engagement of the Madinan period (year 2 of the Hijra). The believers' victory over a Quraysh force three times their size established the new community as a peninsular military and political reality.

As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Kathir and the scholars of his school.

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