Excerpt from Annals of the Early Caliphate: From Original Sources The land was ravaged far and near, and after an absence of two months, the army returned laden with spoil.' Meanwhile stirring events had transpired at Medina, of which an account is given in the chapter following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.