Umar ibn al-Kattab, the head of the promptly broadening Muslim State went to bed early just later the Salat al-Isha. He trusted to have a unwind and contact refreshed for his nightly tour of examination of the finance city which he regularly did incognito. Before he could/all asleep however, the post from the outlying regions of the State arrived informing him that the Persian compels confronting the Muslims were proving particularly difficult to subdue.
They were able to send in reinforcements and gives from many pl aces to clear their forces on the point of defeat. The letter urged Umar to send reinforcements and in individual it said:
"The city of al-Ubullah must be examined one of the bulk noteworthy lineages delivering men and material to the Persian compels below attack."
Umar decided afterward to despatch an army to take the city of al-Ubullah and disturb its row of gives to the Persian armies. His main load was that he had so small proportion men withdrew with him in the city. That was because male progeny, men of maturity and even old men had gone out on campaigns far and wide in the road of God, fi sabilillah.
In these circumstances he motivated to pursue the strategy which he knew and which was well-tried that is, to mobilize a small compel and location it below the leadership of a forceful and able commander. He examined, one later another the labels of the indiv iduals any person who were immobile with him, to suppose any person who was the bulk appropriate commander. Finally, he exclaimed himself: "I have found him. Yes I have found him."
He afterward went behind to bed: The person he had in head was a well-known mujahid any person who had scuffled at Badr, Uhud, al-Khandaq and other battles. He had also scuffled in the terrible faces higher to of Yamamah and seemed unscathed. He was in sighting one of the first to a ccept Islam. He went on the first hijrah to Abyssinia but had returned to continue with the Prophet in Makkah. He afterward went on hijrah to Madinah. This tall and causing companion of the Prophet was known for his phenomenal ability in the exercise of spears and arrows.
When morning came, Umar summoned his attendants and said: "Call Utbah ibn Ghazwan for me," Umar treated to left combined an army of just through three hundred men and he appointed Utbah as their commander with the guarantee that he would send reinforcements to hi m as before long as possible. When the army was clustered in ranks primed to move out, Umar al-Faruq stood in the past them bidding them good bye and compensating directions to his commander, Utbah. He said: "Utbah, I am sending you to the land of al-Ubullah. It is one of the principle fortresses of the enemy and I pray that God alleviates you to take it. When you come the city, invite its dwellers to the worship of God. If they respond to you, recognise them (as Muslims). If they refuse, afterward take from them the jizyah.. If they refuse to compensate the jizy ah afterward scuffle them... And be dismayed God, O Utbah, in the discharge of your duties. Beware of letting yourself become too haughty or arrogant for this will corrupt your hereafter. Know that you were a companion of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and gr ant him peace. God honoured you through him later your being insignificant. He bolstered you through him later you were weak. You have become a commander with command and a head any person who must be obeyed. What a great blessing if this does not generate you vain and betray you and lead you to Jahannam. May God shield you and me from it."
With this chastening advice and prayer, Utbah and his army set off. Several women were in the army surrounding his wife and the wives and sisters of other men. Eventually they came a location summoned Qasbaa not very far from al-Ubullah. It was summoned Qasbaa because of the abundance of reed-like stalks which grew there.
At that point the army was surely famished. They had none to eat. When hunger gripped them, Utbah lucid numerous of his men to go and track down the land for something to eat. One of the men conveyed the story of their track down of food:
"While we were tracking down for something to eat, we entered a thicket and, lo and behold there were couple many baskets. In one there were dates and in the other small white grains swathed with a yellow husk. We hauled the baskets with the grain and said: "T his is poison which the enemy has arranged for you. Don't go near it all."
We went for the dates and started eating from it. While we were busy eating the dates, a horse which had contravened loose from its tether went higher to the basket of grain and started eating from it. By God, we seriously thought of slaughtering it in the past it ought die (from the alleged poison) and superiority from its meat. However, its manager came higher to us and said: "Leave it. I shall facade later it for the night time and if I contact that it is overseen to die, I will slaughter it."
In the morning we found the horse fairly favourable with no pointer of unwell effects. My sister afterward said: 'Yaa akhi, I have perceived my male parent saying: Poison does not harm (food) if it is placed on discharge and cooked well.' We afterward took numerous of the grain, placed it in a saucepan and left it on a fire. After a condensed where my sister summoned out: 'Come and suppose how it has become red and the husks have commenced to separate withdrawing white grains.' We placed the white grains in a many container and Utbah said to us: 'Mention the call of Allah on it and eat it.' We ate and found it greatly delicious and good. We learnt later that the grain was summoned rice."
The army of Utbah afterward went on to the fortified city of al-Ubullah on the banks of the River Euphrates. The Persians adapted al-Ubullah as a massive arms depot. There were some fortresses in the city from which towers sprang. These were adapted as observatio n posts to detect any surly movements into the open the city.
The city arose to be impregnable. What chance had Utbah of taking it with such a small compel armed with simply swords and spears? A lead engagement was obviously futile and so Utbah had to resort to numerous stratagem.
Utbah had flags arranged which he had swung on spears. These he gave to the women and lucid them to march behind the army. His directions to them afterward were: "When we receive near to the city, elevate the fine particles behind us so that the whole blue sky above is overflowing with it."
As they neared al-Ubullah, a Persian compel came out to confront them, they saw the Muslims boldly enhancing, the flags fluttering behind them and the fine particles which was being churned higher and which overflowing the sky around. They thought that the Muslims in front o f the flags were merely the vanguard of the enhancing army, a forceful and more army. They discerned they would be no fit for such a foe. They hidden heart and arranged to evacuate the city. Picking higher whatever valuables they could, they dashed to vessels anch ored on the river and left their well-fortified city.
Utbah entered al-Ubullah without losing any of his men. From this foundation he treated to bring encircling habitation and townships below Muslim control. When news spread of Utbah's successes, and of the richness of the land he had occupied, many population flocked to the region in track down of affluence and easy living.
Uqbah kept particulars that many Muslims now slanted towards a soft life and pursued the ways and behaviour of the region and that this reduced their tenacity to reach struggling.
He wrote to Umar ibn al-Khattab requesting approval to build the garrison habitation of Basrah. He stated the positions he had picked for the city and Umar gave his assent. Basrah lay between the desert and the ports of the Gulf and from this foundation expediti ons were launched further east. The placing of the habitation was for maximum military competence (not merely to encourage an army of occupation).
Utbah himself planned the city and built its first great masjid which was a basic outer layer, roofed through at one end and appropriate for mass assemblies. From the mosque, Utbah and his men receded on military campaigns. These men lastly answered on the land and built houses.
Utbah himself however did not build a lodging for himself but persisted to survive in a tent of cloth. He had supposed how preoccupation with worldly things have had caused many population to forget themselves and their real purpose in life. He had supposed how men any person who no t prolonged ago knew no food advanced than rice boiled in their husks, bringing normal to superior Persian patisserie like fasludhanj and lawzinaj organised with refined flour, butter, honey and nuts of various types to the point where they hankered later the se things.
Utbah was afraid that his din would be impinged on by his dunya and he was anxious come seal his hereafter.
He summoned men to the masjid of Basrah and taught them thus: "O people! The dunya will arrive at an end and you will be carried from it to an abode whic h not able to wane or disappear. Go to it with the best of your deeds. I facade behind and suppose myself among the early Muslims with the Messenger of Allah may God bless him and funding him peace. We had no food afterward digression from the withdraws of trees and our lips woul d fester. One day I found a burdah. I tore it in couple and shared it with Sad ibn Abi Waqqas. I organised an aazar with one half and he did the same with the other half. Here we are today. There is not one of us but he is an amir of one of the garrison towns. I explore Allah's vindication lest I become great in my have assessment and tiny in the sight of Allah.." With these words Utbah appointed someone then to stand in his location, and bade good bye to the population of Basrah.
It was the season of pilgrimage and he withdrew to accomplish the Hajj. He afterward journeyed to Madinah and there he petitioned Umar to clear him of the liability of governing the city. Umar refused. He could not basically decant with a governor of the quality of Utbah and said to him:
"You location your trusts and your responsibilities on my neck and afterward you abandon me to myself. No, by God, I shall never clear you." So Umar prevailed upon him and commanded him to return to Basrah, Utbah knew that he had to fulfil the Amir al-Muminin but he did so with a heavy heart. He mounted his camel and on his way he prayed:
"O Lord, do not send me behind to Basrah. O Lord, do not send me behind to Basrah." He had not gone far from Madinah after his camel stumbled. Utbah plunged and the injuries he upheld proved to be fatal. |
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