Usamah’s army

The Prophet ﷺ prepares an army for the Byzantine frontier under the young Usamah bin Zaid. When some question his youth, the Prophet answers that they had questioned his father Zaid’s command too, and that both father and son were fit to lead and dear to him.

As the book dates it: Safar, 11 A.H.

Who was there

• UZUsamah bin ZaidSon of Zaid bin Harithah, appointed by the Prophet ﷺ in his final days to lead an army north.
• ZHZaid bin HarithahThe Prophet’s freed slave and adopted son, among the first believers; he went with him to Ta’if and fell as the first commander at Mu’tah.