The Battle of Badr: what the early sources actually say
A timeline of the Battle of Badr in 2 AH, drawn from early biographies and hadith, showing what is agreed and what sources report differently.
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The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah: a truce that history called a victory
How a ten-year truce with the Quraysh, signed outside Mecca in 6 AH, became the turning point that opened Arabia to Islam.
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal and the Trial Over the Quran
A Baghdad hadith scholar faced flogging and imprisonment rather than call the Quran created, and Sunni Islam remembers why he held firm.