SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT FEATURED THAT YEAR
DURING THIS YEAR MANY EVENTS OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TOOK PLACE THEY WERE:
1. After the Messenger’s return from Tabuk, the sworn allegation of infidelity between ‘Uwaimir Al-
‘Ajlani and his wife took place.
2. Pelting with stones the Ghamidiyah woman who confessed committing adultery. She was pelted  with stones only after weaning her child off her breast milk.
3. Negus Ashama; the king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), died so the Prophet (Peace be upon him)  performed prayer in absentia for him.
4. The death of Umm Kulthum, the daughter of the Prophet (Peace be upon him), the Prophet felt  extremely sad at her death. “Had I got a third daughter, I would let you marry her.” He said to
‘Uthman.
5. The death of ‘Abdullah bin Abi Salool, the head of hypocrites, after the Prophet’s return from
Tabuk. The Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) asked Allâh’s forgiveness for him. He also  prayed for him in spite of ‘Umar’s disapproval and his attempt to prevent him from doing that.
Later on a Qur’ânic verse was revealed attesting to ‘Umar’s right viewpoint.
ABU BAKR (May Allah be pleased with him) PERFORMS THE PILGRIMAGE:
In the month Dhul-Qa‘dah or in Dhul-Hijjah of the very year (the ninth of Al-Hijra), the Messenger of
Allâh (Peace be upon him) dispatched Abu Bakr (May Allah be pleased with him), the truthful, as a  deputy prince of Al-Hajj (pilgrimage), so that he would lead the Muslims in performing of the  pilgrimage  rituals.
Soon after the departure of the Muslims, there came a Revelation from Allâh: the opening passages of  the Chapter 9 entitled ‘Repentance’ (Surah Tauba or Bara’a) in which ‘freedom from obligation’ is  proclaimed from Allâh in regard to those idolatrous tribes who had shown no respect for the treaties  which they had entered into with the Prophet (Peace be upon him). Communication of this news went  in  line with the Arabian traditions of making public any change relating to declining conventions of blood  and fortunes.
‘Ali bin Abi Talib was deputed to make this declaration. He overtook Abu Bakr at Al-‘Arj or Dajnan. Abu
Bakr inquired whether the Prophet (Peace be upon him) had put him in command or he had just been  commissioned to make the announcement. “I have been deputed to make the proclamation only”  replied ‘Ali. The two Companions then proceeded with the pilgrimage process. Towards the close of the  rituals, on the day of the ritual sacrifice, ‘Ali stood at Al-Jamrah (a spot at which stones are pelted)  and  read aloud to the multitudes that thronged around him and declared quittance from covenants with  idolaters and giving them four months’ respite to reconsider their position. As for the other idolaters  with whom the believers had a treaty and had abated nothing of the Muslims’ rights nor had supported  anyone against them, then the terms of the treaty would run valid until the duration of which expired.
Abu Bakr then sent some Muslims to declare publicly that no disbeliever would after that year perform  pilgrimage, nor would anyone be allowed to make the Tawaf (going round) of the Sacred House  unclothed.
That proclamation in fact vetoed all aspects of paganism out of Arabia and stated quite unequivocally  that those pre-Islam practices were no longer in operation.
A MEDITATION ON THE GHAZWAT:
Meditation on the Prophet’s Ghazawat, missions, and the battalions he formed and dispatched, will  certainly give us and everybody a true and clear impression that the Prophet (Peace be upon him) was  the greatest military leader in the whole world as well as the most righteous, the most insightful and  the most alert one. He was not a man of superior genius for this concern but he was also the Master  and the greatest of all Messengers as far as Prophethood and Heavenly Message are concerned.
Besides, all the battles that he had fought were standard in their application to the requirements of  strictness, bravery, and good arrangements that fitted the terms and conditions of war. None of the  battles he fought was lost as a consequence of shortage of wisdom or due to any other technical error  in army mobilization or a location in a wrong strategical position. The loss of any of his battle was not  due to misjudgement about occupying the best and the most appropriate sites of battles, nor was it  due  to a mischoice of leaders of the fight, for he had proved himself to be a peculiar sort of leader that  differs from any of those leaders that our world had known and experienced. As regards Uhud and
Hunain events, there were consequences of weakness in some military elements in Hunain; and  disobedience to orders in Uhud. Their non-compliance with wisdom and the plan of the battle played a