No One Could Defeat Khalid Bin Waleed - 10 Incredible Facts

Khalid Ibn Al-Waleed was one of the greatest military general that the history has ever seen. Our Prophet ﷺ had said that he was one of the sword, Allah had unleashed against the disbelievers.

What an excellent servant of Allah: Khalid bin Waleed, one of the swords of Allah, unleashed against the unbelievers.

-Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

He earned the nickname "Sword Of Allah" especially after the battle of Mu'tah where he defeated the Byzantines.

Khalid Ibn Al-Waleed
Born	592 CE, Mecca
Died	642 CE, Syria
Tomb	Khalid Ibn Waleed Mosque, Homs (Syria)
Virtue	Sword Of Allah (Saifullah)
Father	Waleed Ibn Al-Mugheera
Tribe	Quraish
Rank	Military General (Greatest)
Total Number Of Battles	100+ (Famous: Battle Of Yarmuk, Battle Of Mutah, Battle Of Uhud, Battle Of Ullais)

Khalid Bin Waleed was a warrior of such stature that even in his dying he wished that he could get martyred in the battlefield. He would usually say during his last days:

Do you see a space of the span of a hand on my leg, chest, arm which is not covered by some scar of the wound of a sword or an arrow or a lance?

Describing the greatest military general, Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A.) said:

Women will no longer be able to give birth to the likes of Khalid Ibn Al-Waleed.

 

10 incredible facts about Khalid Ibn Al-Waleed:

Here are the top 10 facts about Khalid Bin Waleed highlighting his persona in brief.

1. He is considered as one of the finest & the greatest military general of all time.

2. Khalid Ibn Al-Walid fought over 115 battles and remained undefeated.

3. Under his leadership, the Muslims conquered almost all of the Middle East.

4. It is reported that Khalid Ibn Al-Waleed alone in the battle of Mu'tah broke nine swords smashing the enemy until they ran away and Muslims retreated.

5. When Muslims conquered the holy city of Mecca, Khalid Ibn Al-Waleed was also the part of the army under the glorious leadership of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

6. Khalid Ibn Al-Waleed used to warn his enemies by saying, "I have a group of people with me that love death as ardently as you love life".

7. Once, he swallowed poison in front of his enemies to show how powerful he was, which after his enemy immediately surrendered. He built up this resistance since childhood.

8. Khalid Bin Walid destroyed hundreds of Roman statues when he took the city of Palmyra in Syria.

9. Moreover, he was a champion wrestler who loved wrestling.

10. When Khalid Ibn Al-Walid was in his death bed, he regretted not dying as a martyr upon which his friend said, "You could have never died in the battlefield." 

Upon asking the reason, his friend replied:

When Prophet Muhammad called you the "Sword of Allah", you are the sword of Allah and if you died in the battlefield then people would have said that an unbeliever has broken the sword of Allah, and this could never have possible.

Quotes of Khalid Bin Waleed. 

Here are some inspirational quotes by him:

"When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful women." (Khalid Bin Waleed)

"An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah."

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