Sariyyah of Zaid bin Ḥārithah(ra) to Ṭarif - Jamādi’ul-Ākhir 6 A.H.

Sometime after the Ghazwah of Banū Liḥyān, in Jamādi’ul-Ākhir 6 A.H., the Holy Prophet(sa) dispatched a squadron of 15 men in the command of Zaid bin Ḥārithah(ra) towards Ṭarif, which was located at a distance of 36 miles from Madīnah. In those days, the people of Banū Thu‘labah resided there, but before Zaid bin Ḥārithah(ra) could reach it, the people of this tribe received a timely alert and dispersed. After a temporary absence of a few days, Zaid bin Ḥārithah(ra) and his companions returned to Madīnah. During this expedition, the military slogan of the Muslims was .1

1 The slogan ‘amit amit’ means, ‘bring death, bring death.’ (Publishers)
Aṭ-Ṭabaqātul-Kubrā, By Muḥammad bin Sa‘d, Volume 2, p. 293, Sariyyatu Zaid-ibni Ḥārithata Ilaṭ-Ṭarafi, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996)