captured twenty of their camels but the people had fled.
6. In Rajab of the same year, Zaid, at the head of twelve men, set out to a place called Wadi Al-
Qura in a reconnaissance mission to explore the movements of the enemy. The people there  attacked the Muslims, killed nine of them, while the rest including Zaid bin Haritha managed to  escape.
7. The invasion of Al-Khabt (diluted yoghurt) took place in the year eight Hijri i.e. before Al-
Hudaibiyah Treaty. Abu ‘Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah led three hundred horsemen to observe a caravan  belonging to Quraish. Because of the inadequacy of food supplies, they began to starve so much  that they had Khabt (diluted yoghurt), hence the appellation “The Army of Al-Khabt”. One of the  men slaughtered nine camels at three times, three each time at different stages of the mission.
Abu ‘Ubaidah, the leader of the campaign prohibited him from doing so. The sea was generous  and presented them with an animal called Al-‘ Anbar (sperm-whale) so rich in fat that they  subsisted on it for half a month. When they came back home, they narrated the story to the
Prophet (Peace be upon him) , who commented that it was provision granted by Allâh, and asked  them to share him some of its meat.
This campaign came chronologically prior to Al-Hudaibiyah Treaty because of and after which the
Muslims stopped intercepting Quraishi caravans.