31 Dec 2021 By Know Muslim
It is said that the first thing he had asked from Prophet Mohammed was to pray to Allah to forgive anything he had done to the Muslims.
Prophet Mohammed (P.B.U.H) told him that his acceptance of Islam meant that all his past sins were forgiven by Allah.
The battle of Mu’tah was Khalid’s first fight along the ranks of the Muslim army. The military encounter was between the Muslim and Byzantine armies after the latter killed Muslims in the Levant region. The Romans mobilized 200,000 warriors for the battle, while the Muslim army was made up of 3,000 fighters.
Three Muslim commanders were named by the prophet to succeed one another and carry the army’s banner. All three were killed during the battle, and it was about to fall until a companion of the prophet, Thabit ibn al-Arqam hurried and gave the army leadership to Khalid ibn al-Waleed for his vast military experience.
Khalid hesitated to accept the role and said that Thabit was more worthy of the leadership. Khalid saw himself as unsuitable because he is a recent convert to Islam. But Thabit and the rest of the Muslim warriors insisted that Khalid lead the army.
He smartly reshuffled the right and left flanks of the Muslim army and introduced forward a division from the rear in a bid to cast fear in the hearts of the Byzantines, making it seem like new reinforcements had arrived. He then retreated with the army safely back to Madinah.
It was in this battle that the prophet described Khalid as Sayf-ul-llah or the Sword of Allah. On the leadership of the Muslim army, the prophet said: ‘Then it was gripped by a sword of the swords of Allah.’
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