Archers' Hill Uhud
Modest ridge before Mount Uhud where fifty archers held the line, until they did not.
This guide to Archers' Hill Uhud, on the edge of Medina's Mount Uhud battlefield, opens in the third year after the Hijrah, when Muhammad posted fifty archers under Abdullah ibn Jubayr on this low rise with a blunt order: hold the ground no matter what happens below. It follows the battle's early turn, as the Muslim line broke the Meccan standard-bearers and the enemy scattered across the plain, and the men down there began gathering the armor and camels left behind. You'll hear the argument that broke out on this ridge as most of the archers watched that retreat and weighed Ibn Jubayr's order against what looked like a finished fight. Stand on this modest outcrop, not the summit itself, to see the ground the whole day turned on.
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