Badr Caravan
Why would someone randomly make up that the Muslims were waiting at dhul ashirah? There must be some reality to this rumour no? Or at least something must have sparked it?
These are the perceptions of the people there who narrated the events, but since the reality is told by Quran, so we are in the position to refute the perceptions of the narrators. Now we have to reorganize the jigsaw as much as we can or even speculate, in accordance with the description of the Quran.
8: 5. The very start of the expedition refutes it and then other verses that say it was to set or framed by God to establish Haq from Batil