Tarikh Islam

Knowing the people of an era and their intellectual and political attitudes and inclinations is taken to be a necessity of knowing the nature of events and making accurate analysis of the events. In the meantime, the Qur’an repeatedly has classified the people at the time when the Qur’an was being revealed. Having access to the classification and its relevant criteria in the period between the battle of Badr and the battle of Tabuk is the aim of this study. The main question is that “from the Qur’anic viewpoint, in what groups have the people mentioned in the Prophetic age at that period been placed?” It seems that by the spread of Islam from the battle of Badr to that of Tabuk, people have been classified in three groups of Muslims, unbelievers and the hypocrites, and what has changed was the classification of sub-groups. In this study the "historical-analytical and interpretive" method has been used.