The Victory of Hunayn and the Angels

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains:

As the Companions rallied back and the Prophet ﷺ flung his handful of pebbles at the enemy, as he had once done at Badr, it blinded them and stilled their archers, and the Muslims regrouped. Allāh describes it Himself: He helped them on the day of Ḥunayn when their numbers had pleased them and availed nothing, then sent down His sakīnah and armies they could not see (9:25–26). Among those who witnessed the angels was Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, son of the Muṭʿim who had once sheltered the Prophet ﷺ, now a Muslim: he saw a great black cloud come down from the sky and spread among the people like swarming ants, and knew these were the angels come to fight for the believers.

❧Shaybah's Charge

In the panic, Shaybah ibn ʿUthmān of Banū ʿAbd al-Dār, whose father had died against the Muslims at Uḥud, and who had believed only a week before, saw the Prophet ﷺ nearly alone and galloped up behind him to avenge his father. A blinding light rose to burn him; he covered his face. The Prophet ﷺ turned, understood, and prayed three times, "O Allāh, drive Satan from Shaybah and guide him." Faith entered his heart in that instant, by the end of his charge he was fighting for the Prophet ﷺ against Thaqīf and Hawāzin. Seeing their one ambush fail, the enemy, who had no plan beyond it, fled, and the Prophet ﷺ ordered a relentless pursuit so the twenty thousand could not regroup.