Qualla: Battle of Khaybar https://qualla.com/battle-of-khaybar en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/u/e/f/battle-of-khaybar-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Khaybar https://qualla.com/battle-of-khaybar Battle of Khaybar: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-khaybar/ Photo credit Hardscarf, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the spring of 628 CE, farmers walked out of the oasis of Khaybar at dawn with their spades and baskets, expecting an ordinary day in the date groves. Instead they saw an army. Word ran back through the palms, and the workers fled to their fortresses. The force that had appeared was small, perhaps fifteen hundred men, led by the Prophet Muhammad from Medina a hundred and fifty kilometers to the southeast. What followed over the next weeks would become one of the most consequential episodes of early Islam, a siege of stone strongholds amid the palms, decided in part by a single duel that Muslims have retold for fourteen centuries.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/u/e/f/battle-of-khaybar-wp/suef-battle-of-khaybar-a-fortress-oasis.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Khaybar: The Banner Goes to Ali https://qualla.com/battle-of-khaybar/ Photo credit Hardscarf, CC BY-SA 4.0. The siege did not yield easily. The defenders, secure behind thick walls, kept to their fortresses and fought mostly with arrows at a distance, shifting people and treasure between strongholds under cover of darkness. The Muslims went hungry; supplies ran so short they were reduc...

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