A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'/Chapter 2/7

[Sidenote: 7. A Koreish chieftain commits a raid near Medina.&mdash;A.H., I.]

The attitude of the Koreish towards the Prophet and his followers after the flight rapidly became more hostile. Kurz-ibn Jábir, one of the marauding chieftains of the Koreish, fell upon some of the camels and flocks of Medina, while feeding in a plain a few miles from the city, and carried them off.