During the time of the Prophet (SAW) government in Medina, how many wars did he lead?
I have heard that the Prophet (SAW) was involved in more than 100 wars. Are these statistics correct? What is real number of them?
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Sign up to join this communityDuring the time of the Prophet (SAW) government in Medina, how many wars did he lead?
I have heard that the Prophet (SAW) was involved in more than 100 wars. Are these statistics correct? What is real number of them?
There is a complete list with all the details in this Wikipedia article.
According to this source, nabi Muhammad did 100 expeditions, and 27 of them were wars and conflicts.
The meaning fatwa in this webpage.
Zaid was asked how many Ghazwa (غزوة) did the prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم have? He answered 19, then He was asked about the number of times that he was with the prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم. He said 17.
And Ahl al seer اهل السير said that it was 25, and some people said 27, and some people said 29.
And al-Hafiz(الحافظ) ibn Hajr said after he collected these says, the people that mentioned a high number take each event of these as a Ghazwa, but people who mentioned less take the events that are happened in the same period of time is one Ghazwa for example taking bani Qurayza(بني قريظة), al-Khandaq(الخندق) as one Gazwa. And Sarayas(سرايا) were more, they are from 40-70
During the time of the Prophet (S) government in Medina, Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), himself participated in 28 wars which are called Ghuzwa, and sent troops 54 times for different wars making someone else as a commander. These 54 wars are called Sareea and Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) did not participate in them.
So altogether there are 82 wars during the time of the Prophet (S) government in Medina