The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
Sunnah Hudaybiya
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Ibn Hisham, the Prophet’s biographer, says that
Zuhri’s
observation is proved true by the fact that,
according to the tradition narrated by
Jabir ibn
Abdullah,
there were only 1400 men with the Prophet
on his journey to Hudaybiya. But two years after that,
when the Prophet set out for the conquest of Makkah,
he was accompanied by ten thousand companions.
The Hudaybiya
sunnah
is the sum total of the
actions of the Prophet of Islam which resulted in the
‘clear victory’ as recorded in the Qur’an, which, led
the Islamic movement to the age of revolution and
ultimate
ascendancy.
Consequently,
such
opportunities were opened up for Islam as had
never hitherto presented themselves.
What is
Sunnah Hudaybiya? It is, to put it briefly, to ignore
the problems in order to buy time in which to avail
of the opportunities.
God has made this world in such way that, here,
according to the Qur’an, difficulty is always
accompanied by ease (Chapter 94). By the very
system or law of nature itself, it happens that in this
world there are always favourable opportunities
alongside problems. By availing of these
