About a month after Hamzah's unsuccessful attack in the first caravan raid, Muhammad entrusted a party of sixty
Muhajirun led by Ubaydah to conduct another operation at a Quraysh caravan that was returning from Syria and protected by one hundred men. The leader of this caravan was
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb. The Muslim party went as far as Thanyatul-Murra, a watering place in
Hejaz. No fighting took place, as the Quraysh were quite far from the place where Muslims were in the offing to attack the caravan. Nevertheless,
Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas shot an arrow at the Quraysh. This is known as the first arrow of Islam. Despite this surprise attack, no fighting took place and the Muslims returned empty-handed. It is believed that Ubaydah was the first to carry the banner of Islam; others say Hamzah was the first to carry the first banner. Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas was ordered to lead the third raid. His group consisted of about twenty Muhajirs. This raid was done about a month after the previous. Sa'd, with his soldiers, set up an ambush in the valley of
Kharrar on the road to Mecca and waited to raid a returning Meccan caravan from Syria. But the caravan had already passed and the Muslims returned to Medina without a fight. The fourth raid, known as the
invasion of Waddan, was the first offensive in which Muhammad took part personally with 70, mostly Muhajir, troops. A month after the raid at al-Abwa, he personally led 200 men including Muhajirs and
Ansars to Bawat, a place on the caravan route of the Quraysh merchants. A herd of 1,500 camels, accompanied by 100 riders under the leadership of
Umayyah ibn Khalaf, a Quraysh. The purpose of
these raids was to get back what they had lost when they migrated from Mecca to Medina to avoid persecution by Quraysh for practicing their religion. Quraysh seized the property and belongings left behind by Muslims and sold those. The caravan was led by 100 Quraysh and 2,500 camels were with them. == Name of people ==