Battle of ʿAqrabāʾ

…a notoriously bloody battle at ʿAqrabāʾ in eastern Najd (May 633), afterward known as the Garden of Death. The encounter cost the Muslims the lives of many anṣār (“helpers”; Medinan Companions of the Prophet) who were invaluable for their knowledge of the Qurʾān, which had been revealed to the Prophet,…