Uhud Mountain

This guide to Uhud Mountain in Medina centers on fifty archers the Prophet Muhammad posted on this ridge in the year 625, with one order repeated twice: hold your position no matter what you see below. It follows the battle as Mecca's army, back to finish what it had started at Badr, first gave ground, and the moment forty of those archers left their post to join the looting of the enemy camp below. Barely three years earlier, Muhammad and his followers had fled Mecca for Medina to build their first community.