7 Shawwāl 16 AH

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7 Shawwāl 16 AH · ≈ Saturday 1 November 637

Quraysh returns in force; victory slips away when the archers leave the hill, and Ḥamzah is among the seventy martyrs.

7 Shawwāl 3 AH≈ 23 Mar 625DayTraditionalProphetic era · Hijaz · Battle

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A confederacy of ten thousand besieges Madinah and breaks against a ditch, a windstorm, and three weeks of failure.

Shawwāl 5 AH≈ Mar 627MonthAttestedProphetic era · Hijaz · Battle

YEAR-PRECISE — THIS YEAR IN 16 AH

The caliph accepts the city’s surrender in person and grants the assurance later known as the Pact of ʿUmar.

16 AH≈ 637 CEYearAttestedRashidun · Levant · Treaty

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