The first expedition that Muhammad Mustafa led in person, was
the Ghazwa (campaign) of Waddan. He appointed Saad ibn Ubadah as
governor of Medina, and took a group of his followers to Waddan,
a village between Medina and Makkah. A caravan of the Quraysh
was reported to have halted there. But the caravan had left
Waddan before the arrival of the Muslims. They, therefore,
rested for a few days and then returned to Medina. In the
seventh month (Rajab) of the second year of Hijra, i.e., fifteen
months after the migration from Makkah, the Apostle sent seven
men under the command of his cousin, Abdullah ibn Jahash, to
Nakhla, an oasis in the south, where they had to watch the
movements of a certain caravan of the Quraysh. In Nakhla,
Abdullah found a small caravan of the Quraysh which was
returning to Makkah. The caravaneers were Amr bin al-Hadhrami,
Uthman bin Abdullah bin al-Mughira, and his brother, Naufal, and
Hakam bin Kaisan. Abdullah attacked them and seized their goods.
Amr bin al-Hadhrami was killed; Uthman