KHALID BIN WALEED R.A. NAME: KHALID FATHER’S NAME: WALEED BIN MUGHEERA COUNTRY: MAKKAH TRIBE: QURAISH CONVERTED TO ISLAM: AFTER THIRTY OF

HUDAIBIYA TITLE: SAIFULLAH-THE SWORD OF ALLAH

PERSONALITY SKETCHHAZRAT KHALID BIN WALEED R.A WAS A

GREAT WARRIOR AND MILITARY GENERAL.HE WAS STRONG,BRAVE AND HEROIC AND POSSESSED A RESOLUTE MIND.

HE WAS LIKE A CONSTANT STRUGGLER,A ROLE MODEL FOR CHILDREN ,A SOURCE OF INSPIRATON WHO LIVED A SIGNIFICANT LIFE.

HE WAS BRAVE ,WELL KNOWN , GREAT ,PIOUS , COURAGEOUS,HUMBLE AND UNRIVALLED SOLDIER.

BEFORE CONVESION TO ISLAM

BEFORE HIS CONVERSION TO ISLAM HAZRAT KHALID R.A. WAS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF ISLAM.ALL HIS SKILLS AND ABILITIES WERE USED AGAINST ISLAM.

IN THE SECOND WAR BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND NON MUSLIMS;THE BATTLE OF UHAD,WHEN MUSLIMS WERE ABOUT TO BE VICTORIOUS SOME OF THE MUSLIMS DISOBEYED PROPHET MUHAMMAD S.A.W.

AS THEY THOUGHT THAT MUSLIMS HAD WON AND SO THEY LEFT THEIR PLACES FROM THE UHAD MOUNTAIN.AT THAT MOMENT HAZRAT KHALID R.A WHO WAS NOT MUSLIM YET CAME FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF UHAD MOUNTAIN.THUS,MUSLIMS WERE TRAPPED FROM FRONT AND BACK.ALTHOUGH IN THE END NON MUSLIMS HAD TO ESCAPE,BUT SEVENTY (70) MUSLIMS EMBRACED SHAHADAH..

DUE TO HAZRAT KHALID’S MILITARY TACTICS MUSLIM SUFFERED.THROUGHOUT HIS WHOLE LIFE AFTER CONVERTING TO ISLAM HAZRAT KHALID R.A. REGRETTED HIS PERFORMANCE IN THIS BATTLE AGAINST MUSLIMS DESPITE OF KNOWING THAT ISLAM FORGIVES ALL THE SINS COMMITED DURING THE DAYS OF IGNORANCE!

CONVERSION TO ISLAMHAZRAT KHALID R.A. SAW A DREAM THAT

HE HAD CAME OUT FROM A DARK,THIN AND UNINHABITED PLACETO A WIDE ,GREEN AND FERTILE GROUND SO HE DECIDED TO LEAVE FOR MADINAH.HE WENT TO HIS FRIENDS SAFWAN BIN UMAIYYA AND IKRAMAH BIN ABU JAHL AND ASKED THEM TO ACCOMPANY HIM BUT THEY REFUSED.THEN HE WENT TO UTHMAN BIN TALHA AND TRIED TO CONVINCE HIM.HE ACCEPTED THE ADVICE WITHOUT ANY ARGUMENTS.

NEXT DAY THEY WENT TO MADINAH.ON THE WAY THEY MET AMR BIN AL AAS WHO WAS RETURNING FROM ABYSSINIA.HE INQUIRED ABOUT KHALID R.A.’S PLANS.WHEN HE BRIEFED HIM HE WAS VERY PLEASED.WHEN THEY ALL ENTERED MADINAH ,PEOPLE INFORMED PROPHET S.A.W. ABOUT THEIR ARRIVAL HE WAS EXTREMELY PLEASED AND SAID:

“MAKKAH HAS BEEN OFFERED TO YOU.”

HAZRAT KHALID R.A. DECLARED: “THERE IS NO GOD,BUT ALLAH S.W.T AND

MUHAMMAD S.A.W. IS THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH S.W.T.”

THEN HE ASKED RASULULLAH S.A.W. TO PRAY TO ALLAH S.W.T. TO FORGIVE HIM AS HE HAD FOUGHT AGAINST ISLAM SEVERAL TIMES. PROPHET S.A.W. TOLD HIM THAT ALL THE PREVIOUS SINS OF A PERSON DURING THE PERIOD OF IGNORANCE ARE FORGIVEN BY ALLAH S.W.T. AS HE ACCEPTS ISLAM.THEN HE PRAYED TO ALLAH S.W.T. TO FORGIVE KHALID R.A. FOR FIGHTING AGAINST ALLAH’S RELIGION.

BATTLE OF MAUTAHAFTER KHALID R.A.’S CONVERSION TO ISLAM,

THE FIRST BATTLE HE FOUGHT AS A MUSLIM WAS THE BATTLE OF MAUTAH. IN THIS BATTLE PROPHET S.A.W. ASSIGNED THREE FLAG BEARERS NAMELY, ZAID BIN HARIS, JAFFER R.A., AND ABDULLAH BIN RAWAHAH TO RAISE THE FLAG SUCCESSIVELY AFTER THE SHAHADAH OF THE PREVIOUS FLAG BEARER.. IF IN CASE ALL OF THEM WERE MARTYRED ANYONE FROM THE MUSLIM ARMY COULD RAISE THE FLAG.

ALL THE THREE FLAG BEARERS WERE MARTYRED AND AFTER THEIR SHAHADAH HAZRAT KHALID R.A. RAISED THE MUSLIM FLAG AND GOT VICTORIOUS.IN THIS BATTLE NINE SWORDS WERE BROKEN IN HIS HAND.SO HE WAS GIVEN THE TITLE OF SAIFULLAH –THE SWORD OF ALLAH.

BATTLESKHALID BIN WALEED R.A. FOUGHT MANY

BATTLES IN HIS LIFE. HE WON THE BATTLE OF YURMUK HE CRUSHED THE POWER OF THE

SELF PROCLAIMED PROPHET MUSAILIMAH KAZZAB(LIAR/FALSE PROPHET)

HE CONQUERED THE CITY OF BASRA IN SYRIA.

DESPITE OF ALL HIS BRAVERY AND WILL OF BEING MARTYRED IN THE WAY OF ALLAH,HAZRAT KHALID BIN WALEED R.A. DID NOT EMBRACED SHAHADAH.HE GOT ILL AND THIS HEROIC SOLDIER DIED IN HIS BED.BEFORE HE DIED HE SAID:

“I HAVE FOUGHT MORE THAN A HUNDRED BATTLES IN MY LIFE.EVERY PART OF MY BODY HAS RECEIVED INJURIES FROM ARROWS,SWORDS AND SPEARS.BUT I COULD NOT GET THE HONOUR OF SHAHADAH AND TODAY I AM DYING LIKE A CAMEL ON MY BED.”

BUT PROPHET S.A.W. HAD SAID ABOUT HIM : “BUT HOW COULD A SWORD,ARROW OR SPEAR

KILL KHALID WHEN HE HIMSELF WAS THE SWORD OF ALLAH S.W.T.”