The Emergency Case in Madienah

on saturday night, the eighth of shawwal, and after their return from uhud, the muslims spent that night in an emergency case — though they were dead-beat, extremely exhausted. they stayed on the alert, and spent that night guarding the outlets and inlets of madinah. they were specially busy guarding their general leader, the messenger of allâh [pbuh] for fear that some suspects could commit an unexpected folly.