The Meccans retire for the evening at a place called Hamra al-Asad, a few miles away from Medina.
The next morning, Muhammad sends out a small force to hurry the Meccan army on their way home.
“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)
