A small Medinan force defeats a larger Meccan one at the wells of Badr during Ramadan; the victory, read in the Qur'an as divine aid, secures the young community and Muhammad's authority in Medina.
Tagged: Ibadi Islam Muslim Sunni Islam Twelver Shia Islam
The Event
- Date
- 624 (exact)
- Era
- Prophetic; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Badr; today Badr, Saudi Arabia
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sunni Islam, Twelver Shia Islam, Ibadi Islam
- Key figures
- Muhammad
- Key texts
- Qur'an 3:123-126, Qur'an 8
Primary Sources
- Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah
Secondary Sources
- Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (Routledge, 3rd ed. 2016)
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
Provenance: HIST-0204; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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