1؎: The intended meaning is those expeditions (ghazawat) in which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself participated, whether actual fighting took place or not. In Sahih Muslim, it is narrated from Jabir radi Allahu anhu that the number of such expeditions is twenty-one (21). In this case, it is possible that Zayd bin Arqam did not mention two of them, which are called the Expedition of Abwa and the Expedition of Buwat, because their matter remained hidden from him due to the small scale of these two expeditions.
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Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Explanation: 1: What is meant are those expeditions (ghazawat) in which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself participated, whether actual fighting took place or not. In Sahih Muslim, it is narrated from Jabir radi Allahu anhu that the number of such expeditions is twenty-one (21). In this case, it is possible that Zayd ibn Arqam did not mention two of them, which are called the Expedition of Abwa and the Expedition of Buwat, because their matter remained hidden from him due to the small scale of these two expeditions.
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 1676