The Expedition of al-Muraysiʿ (Arabic: غزوة المريسيع) was an early Muslim campaign against the tribe of Banu Mustaliq which took place in December 627 CE.
[4][5] According to Islamic sources, Banu Mustaliq supported Quraysh and joined it during the Battle of Uhud against the Muslims.
[6] Two months after Muḥammad returned from the Expedition of Dhū Qarad, he began to hear rumours that the Banū al-Muṣṭaliq were preparing to attack him, so he sent a spy, Buraydah ibn Al-Ḥasīb Al-Aslamī, to confirm this.
They fought with bows and arrows for an hour, and then the Muslims advanced so rapidly, that they surrounded the al-Muṣṭaliq and took the entire tribe as prisoners, with their families, herds and flock.
[2] Juwayrīyah bint al-Ḥārith, daughter of the Banū al-Muṣṭaliq chief was one of the captives, and agreed to marry Muḥammad.
They released the captives in their possession and set them free, and said: They are the relatives of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) by marriage.
One of the Muhājirs, named Jahja, attacked an Ansārī, and the two groups immediately clashed, but the quarrel was broken up by Muḥammad.
[1] He said, according to the Muslim Historian al-Ṭabarī: “Messenger of God, I have been told that you want to kill ‘Abdullāh ibn Ubayy because of what has been reported to you concerning him.
By God, al-Khazraj know that there has never been among them a man more dutiful to his father than I. I am afraid that you may order someone else to do it and he may kill him; and then my soul will not allow me to look on the slayer of 'Abdullāh ibn Ubayy walking among the people: I would kill him, killing a believer to avenge an unbeliever, and thereby enter the Fire [of hell].” [Tabari, Volume 8, Victory of Islam , p. 55][11] [12]According to the Sealed Nectar, Muḥammad did not punish Abdullāh ibn Ubayy in the public interest.
[Ibn Hishām 2/293, referenced in The Sealed Nectar][1]The event is mentioned in many collections of ḥadīth.
The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) made a raid upon Banū al-Muṣṭaliq while they were unaware and their cattle were having a drink at the water.
Sahih Muslim, 19:4292 The event is mentioned in Ibn Hishām's biography of Muḥammad;, the Muslim jurist Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīyah also mentioned the event in his biography of Muḥammad called Zād al-Ma'ād.