Global Intifada

So for my Sunnipath class [Women and Men Around the Messenger] we’re assigned a project on the Companions (radhi allahu anhum) and it can be about anything. I have a few days to pick a topic. Right now, I’m choosing between (a) writing about the commander’s of the Muslim armies from the Salaf and focusing on their military strategies as well as piety or (b) an account for the Fitnah in a manner that will make it understandable to a lay person.

I’m leaning more towards the former topic as it is probably the sounder way of studying the deen.

Here’s a list of the commanders I’m going to study, inshaAllah:

• Khalid bin Waleed (R)
• Abu ‘Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah (R)
• Sa’d bin Abi Waqas (R)
• ‘Abdur-Rahman bin’Auf (R)
• ‘Amr bin Al-Aas (R)
• Usamah bin Zaid (R)
• ‘Ikrimah bin Abi Hishdm (R)
• Mathna bin Harithah Sheebani (R)
• Nu’man bin Maqran (R)
• Qa’qa’ bin’Amr Al-Tameemi (R)
• Sharjeel bin Hasanah (R)
• Salamah bin Qais (R)
• ‘Utbah bin Ghazwan (R)
• ‘Asim bin Thabit (R)
• Zaid bin Harithah (R)
• Jareer bin’Abdullah bin Jabir (R)
• Ja’far bin Abi Talib (R)
• Huthaifah bin Yaman (R)
• Dharar bin Azwar Asadi (R)
• Sa’eed bin Al-Aas (R)
  ‘Ukashah bin Mohsin (R)
• ‘Abdullah bin Jahash (R)
• ‘Abdullah bin Hathafah (R)
• ‘Abdullah bin Rawahah (R)
• ‘Ubadah bin Samit (R)

I also think I’m going to mention the role of the female companions in these various battles as well.

If anyone has any sources for this topic, I’d be much obliged. Just post the names of books or articles or scholar’s lectures that you’d recommend to help me out.

Jazakallah khairun.

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