Fighting from an elevated position is easier for a number of tactical reasons. In Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Master Sun advises to take high ground and let the enemy attack from a lower position. Khalid ibn AI-Waleed took advantage of this and led the Meccan fighters with him around the hill to attack the Muslim army from the rear, where they least expected their enemy – and the loss on the part of the Muslims became a great one. As the battle turned in favour of the Muslim army, the archers left their positions from the hill. In the Battle of Uhud, The Prophet placed a group of archers on a nearby hill to give protection to the back of the Muslim army with specific instructions not to leave their posts under any circumstances. Let’s take the first military encounter in which Khalid ibn AI-Walid showed his strategies which was the Battle of Uhud, which he caused to be the worst for Muslims in the early days of Islam. This battle initiated by the Mecca polytheists in revenge for their defeat at the Battle of Badr, where more than thousand of them were defeated by only a little over three hundred Muslims warriors. Khalid ibn Al-Walid was a military strategist and commander who turned a potential defeats into victories. Prophet Muhammad said, ‘The better ones of you in the Days of Ignorance are the better ones of you in Islam when they understand (Islam).” These words of The Prophet were best proved in the case of Khalid ibn AI-Walid.Īfter his acceptance of his new faith – Islam, Khalid ibn AI-Walid led many decisive battles in favour of the Muslims. It was Khalid ibn AI-Waleed who managed to cause the defeat of the Muslim army at Uhud before his conversion to Islam. Khalid ibn AI-Walid as a master strategist through Master Sun and The Art of War: