The Sanctity of the Haram Restored

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains:

What had made the march lawful was the breach of al-Ḥudaybiyyah, Banū Bakr's raid on Khuzāʿah, in which more than twenty were killed. So the Prophet ﷺ permitted Khuzāʿah a retaliatory strike on Banū Bakr, but bounded it tightly: only until ʿAṣr, a few hours in the heat of the day, and no more. After the ʿAṣr prayer he forbade all further bloodshed, the Ḥaram had returned to its sanctity. When a man of Khuzāʿah killed a man of Banū Bakr the next day, the Prophet ﷺ was furious and warned that any repeat would open the killer to qiṣāṣ from the victim's family. He declared that the fighting Allāh had allowed him in Mecca was for one hour of one day only, سَاعَةً مِنْ نَهَار, never a licence for anyone after him.

In this the Conquest was unique: no war-booty, no captives, no land seized, no real battle, a sacred city honoured as no city before or since, taken by an army commanded not to draw its swords.