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The Prophet throws dust into the enemies ' faces in Badr and Hunain
Imam Muslim narrated on the authority of Salamah who said: “We fought by the side of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, at Hunain. When we encountered the enemy, I advanced and ascended a hillock, A man from the enemy turned towards me and I shot him with an arrow. He (ducked and) hid himself from me. I could not understand what he did, but (all of a sudden) I saw that a group of people appeared from the other hillock. They and the Companions of the Prophet turned back and I too turned back defeated.
I had two mantles, one of which was wrapped around my waist (covering the lower part of my body and the other I put around my shoulders. My waist-wrapper became loose and I held the two mantles together. (in this downcast condition) I passed by the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who was riding on his white mule.
He said: “The son of Akwa’ finds himself to be utterly perplexed''. When the companions gathered round him from all sides, the Messenger of Allah got down from his mule, picked up a handful of dust from the ground, threw it into their (enemy) faces and said: “May these faces be deformed!''.
There was no one among the enemy whose eyes were not filled with the dust from this handful. So, they turned back fleeing and Allah the Exalted and Glorious defeated them, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, distributed their booty among the Muslims."
In another narration by Imam Muslim, al- Abbas said (in a long Hadith): “...And the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who was riding on his mule looked at their fight with his neck stretched forward and he said: “This is the time when the fight is raging hot''. Then the Messenger of Allah took (some) pebbles and threw them in the face of the infidels.
Then he said: ''By the Lord of Muhammad, the infidels are defeated." Al- Abbas said: ''I went round and saw that the battle was in the same condition in which I had seen it. By Allah, it remained in the same condition until he threw the pebbles. I continued to watch until I found that their force had been spent out and they began to retreat"
As for the battle of Badr the Quran says about it in Surah (verse) al-anfal (the spoils of war): “And you (Muhammad) threw not when you did throw but Allah threw, that He might test the believers by a fair trial from Him." (8:17).
As for what has taken place in the battle of Humanin, the Quran says: “Truly Allah has given you victory on many battle-fields, and on the Day of Hunain (battle) when you rejoiced at your great number but it availed you naught and the earth, vast as it is, was straitened for you then you turned back in flight. Then Allah did send down His calmness on the Messenger and on the believers, and sent down forces (angels) which you saw not, and punished the disbelievers. Such is the recompense of disbelievers." (9:25-26)
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