were excepted. Of course, they had no choice but to carry out the orders, so they took with them  everything they could carry even the pegs and beams of ceilings. Their caravan counted 600 loaded  camels including their chiefs, Huyai bin Akhtab and Salam bin Abi Al-Huqaiq, who left for Khaibar  whereas another party shifted to Syria. Two of them embraced Islam, Yameen bin ‘Amr and Abu Sa‘d  bin Wahab, and so they retained their personal wealth.
The Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) seized their weapons, land, houses, and wealth. Amongst  the other booty he managed to capture, there were 50 armours, 50 helmets, and 340 swords.
This booty was exclusively the Prophet ’s because no fighting was involved in capturing it. He divided  the booty at his own discretion among the early Emigrants and two poor Helpers, Abu Dujana and
Suhail bin Haneef. Anyway the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) spent a portion of this wealth  on his family to sustain their living the year around. The rest was expended to provide the Muslim  army  with equipment for further wars in the way of Allâh.
The invasion of Bani An-Nadeer took place in Rabi‘ Al-Awwal, 4 A.H. i.e. in August 625 A.D. Almost all  the verses of Sûrah Al-Hashr (Chapter 59 - The Gathering) describe the banishment of the Jews and  reveal the disgraceful manners of the hypocrites. The verses manifest the rules relevant to the booty.
In this Chapter, Allâh, the All-Mighty, praises the Emigrants and Helpers. This Chapter also shows the  legitimacy of cutting down and burning the enemy’s land and trees for military purposes. Such acts  cannot be regarded as phenomena of corruption so long that they are in the way of Allâh.
In this very Chapter, Allâh recommends the believers to be pious and prepare themselves for the  world  to come and He ends it with a compliment upon Himself and a manifestation of His Holy Names and
Attributes.
As this Chapter concentrates on Bani An-Nadeer and their banishment, Ibn ‘Abbas used to describe it  as
‘An-Nadeer Chapter’.
THE INVASION OF NAJD:
With the peaceful victory that the Muslims achieved at Bani An-Nadeer invasion, their control over
Madinah was undisputedly established, and the hypocrites receded to a state of silence and stopped  their artful machinations publicly. Consequently the Prophet (Peace be upon him) had ample time to  direct all his energies and human resources towards suppressing the desert bedouins and curbing their  harmful provocations and wicked malicious practices of killing his missionaries and even contemplating  an invasion of Madinah itself. Meanwhile, the Muslim scouting groups reported building up of bedouin  troops of Bani Muharib and Tha‘labah of Ghatfan around Madinah. The Prophet (Peace be upon him),  with the Muslims, hurriedly set out to discipline those new outlaws, cast fear into their hearts and  deter  them from perpetrating further wicked practices. These deterring operations were carried out  repeatedly and did produce effective results. The rebellious hard-hearted desert bedouins were  terrorized into the mountains, and Madinah remained completely immune against their raids.
In the context of these invasions, it is interesting to draw some prominence to a significant one ¾
Dhat
Ar-Riqa‘ (rags) campaign ¾ which some scholars claim, took place in Najd ( a large area of tableland  in  the Arabian Peninsula) in Rabi‘ Ath-Thani or Jumada Al-Ula, 4 A.H. They substantiate their claim by  saying that it was strategically necessary to carry out this campaign in order to quell the rebellious  bedouins in order to meet the exigencies of the agreed upon encounter with the polytheists, i.e. minor
Badr Battle in Sha‘ban, 4 A.H. The most authentic opinion, however, is that Dhat Ar-Riqa‘ campaign  took place after the fall of Khaibar. This is supported by the fact that Abu Hurairah and Abu Musa Al-
Ash‘ari (May Allah be pleased with her) witnessed the battle. Abu Hurairah embraced Islam only some  days before Khaibar, and Abu Musa Al-Ash‘ari came back from Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and joined the
Prophet (Peace be upon him) at Khaibar. The rules relating to the prayer of fear which the Prophet
(Peace be upon him) observed at Dhat Ar-Riqa‘ campaign, were revealed at ‘Asfan Invasion and this  beyond a shadow of doubt took place after Al-Khandaq (the trench) Battle in late 5 A.H.
THE INVASION OF BADR, THE SECOND:
When the Muslims destroyed the power of the Arab-desert tribes and guarded themselves against  their  evils, they started preparations to encounter their great enemy. A year elapsed since they fought
Quraish at Uhud. So it was due time to meet them and start war again in order to determine which of  the two parties was worthy of survival.