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Conquest of Makkah

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20 Ramaḍān·10 Jan 630· DayAttested ·Conquest · Hijaz · Prophetic era

When Quraysh's allies violated the truce of Ḥudaybiyyah, the Prophet ﷺ marched on Makkah with ten thousand men, moving so quickly that the city had no time to organise. The army entered from four directions almost without fighting on 20 Ramaḍān 8 AH.

At the Kaʿbah he had the three hundred and sixty idols struck down, reciting "Truth has come and falsehood has vanished" (17:81). To the assembled Quraysh — the people who had driven him out eight years earlier — he declared a general amnesty: "Go, for you are free."

The chronicles fix the army's departure from Madinah on 10 Ramaḍān and place the entry on the 20th in the main line, a distinction a well-known edit suggestion to this entry once confused.

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HISTORYv4 · 5 revisions · 2 contributorslast change 8 Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1448 — date_note distinguishes departure vs entry · view full history →
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CHRONICLE Ibn Hishām, al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya no URL — cited edition
CHRONICLE al-Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-Rusul wa-l-Mulūk no URL — cited edition
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Conquest of Makkah
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20 Ramaḍān·10 Jan 630 DayAttested

When Quraysh's allies violated the truce of Ḥudaybiyyah, the Prophet ﷺ marched on Makkah with ten thousand men, moving so quickly that the city had no time to organise. The army entered from four directions almost without fighting on 20 Ramaḍān 8 AH.

At the Kaʿbah he had the three hundred and sixty idols struck down, reciting "Truth has come and falsehood has vanished" (17:81). To the assembled Quraysh — the people who had driven him out eight years earlier — he declared a general amnesty: "Go, for you are free."

The chronicles fix the army's departure from Madinah on 10 Ramaḍān and place the entry on the 20th in the main line, a distinction a well-known edit suggestion to this entry once confused.

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Attested AI: 0.80 · advisory only v4 · 5 revisions
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CHRONICLE Ibn Hishām, al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya no URL — cited edition
CHRONICLE al-Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-Rusul wa-l-Mulūk no URL — cited edition
REFERENCE Wikipedia, Conquest of Mecca Open ↗
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