Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq — Page 61
19 The Battle of Uhud T he Quraish were furious about their defeat in the Battle of Badr, and began to prepare for another attack on Mad i nah. A year later in the third year after Hijrah (migration) a Makkan army of three thousand people arrived at the mountain of U h ud on a Wednesday in Rama da n. The Holy Prophet sa confronted them with seven hundred Muslims and managed to stop their advance and pushed them back. Behind the Muslim force there was a mountain pass. Fifty Muslims had been stationed there to guard it, so that the Makkans could not attack the Muslims from behind. However, when news of the enemy’s retreat reached them, most of those fifty Muslims misguidedly left their positions, and