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From Āl-i Mu‘allā
1. Sa'īd b. Abī Sa'īd b. Aws b. Mu'allā.
2. Sahl b. Abī Sa'īd.
3. Hārith b. 'Uqba b. 'Ubayd b. Mu'allā.
4. Muhammad b. 'Amr b. Qays.
5. Kathīr b. Aflah b. Mawlā Abī Ayyūb Ansārī.
Thus, those reported to be killed from among the Ansār were 137 and the total number of the killed from Ansār and Quraysh was 360 men. Those who were executed included:
1. Ma'qil b. Sanān Ashja'ī.
2. Muhammad b. Abī Hudhayfa-yi 'Adwī.
3. Muhammad b. Abī Jahm b. Hudhayfa.[155]
In other sources, the names of the killed are randomly mentioned. Ibn Sa'd has miscellaneously listed the names of those killed in the tragedy of Harrah that we have collected here and presented to the respected readers.
‘Abd Allāh b. Hanzala
'Abd Allāh b. Hanzala b. al-Ghasīl b. Abī 'Āmir b. Rāhib - 'Abd 'Amr b. Sayfī b. Nu'mān b. Mālik b. Amat b. Dubay'at b. Zayd b. Mālik b. 'Awf b. 'Amr b. 'Awf b. Mālik b. Aws[156] - was the commander-in-chief of the Medinan forces. He was among the dignitaries of Tābi'īn (successors of the Prophet's companions)[157] and one of the few warriors who was famous for his gallantry.[158] His mother's name was Jamīla - daughter of 'Abd Allāh b. Ubayy b. Sallūl. The reason why 'Abd Allāh's father was called Ghasīl al-Malā'ika is that Hanzala decided to participate in the battle of Uhud. Their marriage took place 32 months after Hijra and the early morning after he consummated his marriage with his wife, Hanzala had to participate in the battle of Uhud and he was martyred on the same day without anytime to perform obligatory ritual ablution. According to Prophet (s), the angels gave him ritual ablution (ghusl).[159] For this reason, Hanzala was known as Ghasīl al-Malā'ika. Jamīla gave birth to 'Abd Allāh nine months after the martyrdom of Hanzala and 'Abd Allāh was seven years old at the time of the Prophet's (s) demise.46 He had met the Prophet (s) and narrated traditions from His Holiness.[160] He was killed as a martyr along with eight of his children due to the sword stroke of one of the Syrian soldiers21 and thus the life of this noble man and eminent companion of the Prophet (s) came to an end.
Muhammad b. ‘Amr b. Hazm
Muhammad b. 'Amr b. Hazm b. Lawdhān b. 'Amr b. Awf b. Ghanm b. Mālik b. Najjār was nicknamed as Abā 'Abd al-Malik. His mother, 'Amra, was the daughter of 'Abd Allāh b. Hārith b. Jammāz from Banī Hubāla who was among the allies of Banī Sā'id.[161] He was born in a place called Najrān in the 10th year after Hijra.[162] His father had been appointed as the governor of that place. Muhammad b. 'Amr b. Hazm was among the nobles of tābi'īn.[163] He was a dignified man from whom some traditions have been narrated. On the day of Harrah, he said prayers while he was seriously injured. He was finally martyred in the battle of Harrah in 63 A.H. (682 C.E.). In Medina and Baghdad some of his descendents had survived.
Muhammad b. Ubayy
Muhammad b. Ubayy b. Ka'b b. Qays b. 'Ubayd b. Mu'āwiyah b. 'Amr b. Mālik b. Najjār was nicknamed as Abā Ma'ādh. He was born in the time of the Prophet (s). His mother, Umm al-Tufayl, was the daughter of Tufayl b. 'Amr b. Mundhar b. Subay' b. 'Abd Nuham from Daws tribe. He was an eminent scholar of hadīth and a few traditions have also been transmitted from him. He was killed in the battle of Harrah in 63 A.H. (682 C.E.)[164]
Suwayd b. ‘Uwaym
The mother of Suwayd b. 'Uwaym b. Sā'idat b. 'Ā'ish b. Qays b. Nu'mān b. Yazīd b. Umayyah Umāma, was the daughter of Bukayr b. Tha'laba, a descendant of Banī Ghadab b. Jushm b. Jazraj. He was killed on the day of Harrah in 63 A.H. (682 C.E.)[165]
Ayyūb b. Bashīr
Ayyūb b. Bashīr b. Sa'd b. Nu'mān b. Akkāl b. Lawdhān b. Hārith b. Umayyah b. Mu'āwiyah b. Mālik b. 'Awf b. 'Amr b. 'Awf, was from the Ansārs and from the Khazraj tribe. His nickname was Abā Sulaymān. He was born in the time of the Prophet (s). He participated in the battle of Harrah and received many injuries, and after two years died of the injuries at the age of 75.[166]
‘Ubbād and Thābit, Sons of Tamīm
'Ubbād and Thābit, sons of Tamīm b. Ghaziyat b. 'Amr b. 'Atiya b. Khansā' b. Mabdhūl b. 'Amr b. Ghanam b. Māzin b. Najjār, was killed on the day of Harrah.[167]
Muhammad b. Thābit
Muhammad b. Thābit b. Qays b. Shammās b. Mālik b. 'Amr b. Mālik al-Asghar b. Tha'laba b. Ka'b b. Khazraj b. Hārith b. Khazraj12, 'Abd Allāh b. Hanzala's maternal brother.[168]
Sons of Muhammad
Muhammad had three sons named 'Abd Allāh, Sulaymān, and Yahyā who were killed on the day of Harrah.[169]
‘Īsā b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān
'Isā b. 'Abd al-Rahmān b. Yazīd b. Jāriya b. 'Āmir b. Majma' b. 'Atāf b. Dabī'at b. Zayd b. Mālik b. 'Awf b. 'Amr b. 'Awf from the Aws tribe was killed on the day of Harrah.[170]
Aflah
Aflah, Abū Ayyūb Ansārī's slave, was nicknamed as Abā Kathīr and according to some Abā Abd al-Rahmān. He was a captive of 'Ayn al-Tamr[171] that was conquered by Khālid b. Walīd in the time of Abī Bakr's Calliphate. He was a trustworthy man who was killed on the day of Harrah.[172]
‘Amr b. Sa‘d
'Amr b. Sa'd b. Abī Waqqās b. Uhayb b. 'Abd Manāf b. Zuhra's mother was Sulamī, daughter of Hasfa b. Thaqaf b. Rabī'a b. Taym al-Lāt b. Tha'laba b. 'Ukāba from Rabī'a tribe, who was killed on the day of Harrah in Dhu'l Hijja, in 63 A.H.[173]
‘Umayr b. Sa‘d
'Umayr b. Sa'd and 'Amr b. Sa'd's brother were of the same mother. These two brothers were killed on the day of Harrah.[174]
Ibrāhīm b. Nu‘aym
Ibrāhīm b. Nu'aym b. Nahām b. 'Abd Allāh b. Asīd b. 'Abd 'Awf b. 'Ubayd b. 'Uwayj 'Adīyy b. Ka'b was one of the commanders on the day of Harrah and was killed on the same day.[175]
Muhammad b. Abī al-Jahm
Muhammad b. Na'īm b. Abī al-Jahm b. Ghānim b. 'Āmir b. 'Abd Allāh b. 'Ubayd b. 'Uwayj b. 'Adī b. Ka'b's mother, Khawla, was Qa'qā' b. Ma'bad's daughter from Banī Tamīm tribe. He was one of the commanders on the day of Harrah and was killed on the same day.[176]
‘Abd al-Rahmān b. Huytab
'Abd al-Rahmān b. Hutyab b. 'Abd al-'Uzzā b. Abī Qays b. 'Abd Wadd b. Nasr b. Mālik b. Hisl b. 'Āmir b. Lu'ayy's mother, Anīsa, was Hafs b. Ahnaf from Banī 'Āmir b. Luwayy's tribe. 'Abd al-Rahmān was killed on the day of Harrah in Dhu'l Hijja, in 63 A.H.[177]
Ja‘far b. ‘Abd Allāh
Ja'far b. 'Abd Allāh b. Buhayna was killed on the day of Harrah.[178] Buhayna, Umm 'Abd Allāh, was Arat's daughter.
‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Utba
'Abd Allāh b. 'Utba b. Ghazwān b. Jābir b. Nasīb b. Wuhayb b. Zayd b. Mālik b. 'Abd 'Awf b. Hārith b. Māzin b. Mansūr b. 'Ikrama b. Hasafa b. 'Aylān b. Mudar, was killed on the day of Harrah.[179]
‘Abd Allāh b. Muhammad
'Abd Allāh b. Muhammad b. Abī Bakr, was a slave girl named Sūda. 'Abd Allāh was killed on the day of Harrah.[180]
Abū Sa‘īd b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān
'Abū Sa'īd b. 'Abd al-Rahmān b. Hārith b. Hishām b. Mughayra's mother, Umm Rasan, was the daughter of Hārith b. 'Abd Allāh b. Husayn from the Banī Hārith b. Ka'b tribe. Abū Sa'īd was killed on the day of Harrah.[181]
‘Umāra b. Suhayb
'Umāra b. Suhab b. Sanān b. Mālik, was killed on the day of Harrah.49
‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān
'Abd Allāh b. 'Abd al-Rahmān b. Hātib b. Abī Balta'a, was killed on the day of Harrah.49
‘Abbād b. Abī Nā’ila
'Abbād b. Abī Nā'ila, Silkān b. Salāma b. Waqsh b. Zughba b. Zaghwarā' b. 'Abd al-Ashhal and his son Salama, were killed on the day of Harrah.49 'Abbād's mother, Sahl, Rawī Waqsh daughter was from Banī Ashhal.
Zayd b. Muhammad
Zayd b. Muhammad b. Maslama b. Khālid b. Adīyy b. Mujda'a b. Hārith b. Khazraj b. 'Amr was from the Aws tribe and his mother was a slave girl. He was killed as martyr on the day of Harrah after having 14 sword wounds with four of the wounds on his face.[182]
Ja‘far b. Yazīd
Ja'far b. Yazīd b. Silkān b. Salāma b. Waqsh was killed on the day of Harrah.[183]
Thābit's Children
'Amr and Muhammad and Yazīd b. Qays b. Khatīm b. Adīyy b. Zufr and Ka'b b. Khazraj b. 'Amr who were from the Aws tribe. Their mother, Umm Habīb, was the daughter of Qays b. Zayd b. 'Āmir b. Sawād b. Zufr and all were killed on the day of Harrah in 63 A.H.[184]
Khawwāt's Children
Habīb b. Khawwāt b. Jubayr b. Nu'mān b. Umayyah b. Amr al-Qays was killed on the day of Harrah. His mother was from the Fuqaym Banī Tha'laba tribe. His brother 'Amr b. Khawwāt was also killed on the day of Harrah. His mother's name is not historically specified.
Children of Mujammi‘
Yahyā b. Jāriya b. 'Āmir b. Mujammi' b. 'Attāf b. Dubay'a b. Zayd b. Mālik b. 'Awf b. 'Amr b. 'Awf, from the Aws tribe was killed on the day of Harrah. His mother, Sulamī, was the daughter of Thābit b. Dahdāha from the Balayy Qudā'a. 'Ubayd Allāh b. Mujamma', Yahyā's maternal brother, was also killed in the battle of Harrah.[185]
Muhammad b. Jabr
Muhammad b. Jabr b. 'Atīk b. Qays b. Haysha b. Hārith b. Umayyah b. Mu'āwiyyah b. Mālik b. 'Awf b. 'Amr b. 'Awf from the Aws tribe was killed on the day of Harrah.[186]
‘Abbād b. ‘Āsim
'Abbād b. 'Āsim b. 'Adī b. Jadd b. 'Ajlān was from one of Qudā'a tribes and was killed on the day of Harrah. They were from among the allies Banī 'Amr b 'Awf from Aws tribe.51
Children of Zayd
Seven of Zayd's children were killed in the battle of Harrah: Sa'd b. Zayd b. Thābit b. Dahhāk b. Zayd b. Lawdhān b. 'Amr b. 'Abd b. 'Awf b. Mālik b. Najjār. His mother, Umm Sa'd, was the daughter of Sa'd b. Rabī', from the Bulhārith b. Khazraj tribe. Sa'd was killed on the day of Harrah. His brother Sulaymān b. Zayd was also killed on the day of Harrah. His other brother, Yahyā b. Zayd was also killed then. These brothers were all from the same brother. Salīt b. Zayd, 'Abd al-Rahmān b. Zayd and 'Abd Allah b. Zayd, whose mother was a slave girl, and also Zayd b. Zayd were killed on the day of Harrah.[187]
‘Umārah b. ‘Aqaba
'Umārah b. 'Uqba b. Kudaym b. 'Adīyy b. Hāritha b. 'Amr b. Zayd Manāt b. 'Adīyy b. 'Amr b. Mālik b. Najjār, whose mother was a slave girl, was killed on the day of Harrah.[188]
Sons of Nubayt
Muhammad b. Nubayt b. Jābir b. Mālik b. 'Adī b. Zayd b. Manāt b. 'Adī b. 'Amr b. Mālik b. Najjār and his brother, 'Abd al-Malik b. Nubayt, were killed on the day of Harrah.[189] Muhammad b. Nubayt's mother, Furay'a, daughter of Abī Amāma, As'ad b. Zarāra was from Banī Najjār.
‘Abd al-Rahmān b. ‘Abd Allāh
'Abd al-Rahmān b. 'Abd Allāh b. Khubayb b. Yasāf b. 'Inabat b. 'Amr b. Khudayj b. 'Āmir b. Jusham b. Hārith b. Khazraj was killed on the day of Harrah.[190] His mother was 'Awna, daughter (of Abī Mas'ūd 'Uqba b. 'Amr) from Banī Jidāra.
‘Abd al-Rahmān b. Abī Qutāda
'Abd al-Rahmān b. Abī Qatādat b. Rab'ī b. Baldhama was killed on the day of Harrah.[191] His mother, Sulāfa, was daughter of Barā' b. Ma'rūr from Banī Salma tribe.
Yazīd b. Abī al-Yasar
Yazīd b. Abī al-Yasar (Ka'b b. 'Amr b. 'Abbād b. 'Amr b. Sawād) from Banī Salma was from Khazraj tribe. He was killed on the day of Harrah.[192]
Children of Abī ‘Ayyāsh
Sulaymān b. Abī 'Ayyāsh b. 'Ubayd b. Mu'āwiyah b. Sāmit, whose mother was a slave girl, was killed on the day of Harrah. His brother, Bashīr b. Abī 'Ayyāsh was also killed and no one of their generation survived.[193]
Childen of Abī ‘Ubāda
From among his children, three were killed on the day of Harrah: Qurwa b. Abī 'Ubāda b. Sa'd b. 'Uthmān b. Khalda b. Mukhallad b. 'Āmir b. Wurayq. His mother, Umm Khālid, was 'Amr b. Wadhfa from the Khazraj tribe.
'Uthmān, Farwah's son was also killed in the battle of Harrah. Sa'd b. 'Uthmān was from among the fighters of Badr.
'Uqba b. Abī 'Ubāda b. Sa'd b. 'Uthmān, whose mother was a slave girl, was also killed on the day of Harrah.52
Mas'ūd b. 'Ubāda
Mas'ūd b. 'Ubāda b. Abī 'Ubāda, Sa'd b. 'Uthmān b. Khalda, whose mother was a slave girl, was killed on the day of Harrah.[194]
Children of Ka'b
Ishāq b. Ka'b b. 'Ujra b. Umayyah b. 'Adī b. Hārith was killed on the day of Harrah. His brother, Muhammad b. Ka'b, was also killed on the day of Harrah.[195]
Dhakwān
Abī 'Amr, was a slave of 'Ā'isha - Prophet's (s) wife - who was freed after the demise of 'Ā'isha. He was killed on the day of Harrah.[196]
Kathīr b. Aflah
Kathīr b. Aflah was Abī Ayyūb Ansārī's slave who was killed on the day of Harrah.[197] He was one of the scribes when 'Uthmān had new copies of the Qur'an written.[198]
Bashīr b. Abī Zayd
Bashīr b. Abī Zayd was killed on the day of Harrah. His descendents lived in Basra.[199]
Yazīd b. Hurmuz
Yazīd b. Hurmuz Fārsī - Mawlā al-Dawsīyīn - was the commander of the slaves on the day of Harrah. He was a trustworthy person who was killed on the day of Harrah.[200]
Wahab b. ‘Abd Allāh
Wahab b. 'Abd Allāh b. Zam'a b. Aswad b. Muttalib b. Asad b. 'Abd al-'Uzzā was killed in the battle of Harrah.[201]
Ibrāhīm b. Qāriz
Ibrāhīm b. Qāriz - Khālid b. Hārith b. 'Ubayd b. Tayim b. 'Amr b. Hārith b. Mabdhūl b. Hārith b. 'Abd Manāt b. Kunāna was killed on the day of Harrah.[202]
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Mus'ab b. Zubayr lists the name of those killed in the battle of Harrah as follows:
Fadl Asghar
He was a pious man who was killed on the day of Harrah.[203]
Muhammad b. Ayyūb
Muhammad b. Ayyūb b. 'Abd al-Mundhar b. 'Alqama b. Kalada was killed on the day of Harrah.[204] His mother, Hind, was the daughter of Juwayd b. Huwayrith b. Hujayr b. 'Abd b. Qusayy.
‘Abd al-Rahmān b. Abī ‘Ubayda
'Abd al-Rahmān b. Abī 'Ubayda b. 'Abd Allāh b. 'Awf was killed on the day of Harrah.[205] His mother, Maryam, was the daughter of 'Abd Allāh b. Mutī' b. 'Adwī.
‘Abd Allāh b. Muhammad
'Abd Allāh b. Muhammad b. Abī Bakr, whose mother was a slave girl, was killed on the day of Harrah.[206]
Miqdād b. ‘Abd Allāh
Miqdād b. 'Abd Allāh b. Wahb b. Zam'a was killed on the day of Harrah.
Wahb b. ‘Abd Allāh
Wahab b. 'Abd Allāh b. Wahab b. Zam'a was killed on the day of Harrah and no one of his progeny survived.[207]
Yazīd b. Musāfi‘
Yazīd b. Musāfi' b. Talha b. 'Uthmān, whose mother was of the Banī Hārith b. Khazraj tribe, was killed on the day of Harrah.[208]
‘Abd Allāh b. Abī ‘Amr
'Abd Allāh b. Abī 'Amr b. Hafs b. Mughayra was the first one who dethroned Yazīd. He was killed on the day of Harrah.[209]
Muslim b. Abū Burda
Muslim b. Abū Burda b. Ma'bad, had a son named Muslim whose mother was Hafsa, daughter of Abī Harmala, from the Ash'arites, and was killed on the day of Harrah.[210]
Sons of ‘Āsim
'Ubayd Allāh and Sulaymān: sons of 'Āsim b. 'Amr b. al-Khattāb, whose mother 'Ā'isha, was Mutī' b. Aswad's daughter, was killed on the day of Harrah.[211]
‘Abd Allāh b. Nāfi‘
'Abd Allāh b. Nāfi' b. Abd Allāh b. Nadla b. 'Awf b. 'Ubayd b. 'Uwayj was killed on the day of Harrah.[212] His mother was from the Thaqīf tribe.
Zyad b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān
Zyad b. 'Abd al-Rahmān b. 'Awf Hazrī, was from among the valiant figures of Quraysh. He was regarded as among the warriors of Medina against the Umayyids. He was killed in the battle of Harrah.[213]
From the Children of ‘Abd Allāh b. Qays
Sa'd and Usāma, were sons of 'Abd Allāh b. Qays b. Shurayh b. Mālik b. Rabī'ah b. Ahīb b. Dabāb b. Hujayr. Their mother, Umm Qāsim, 'Abd Allāh's daughter, was from the Banī 'Adī b. Du'il. These two brothers were killed on the day of Harrah.55
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Ibn Qutayba has mentioned additional names of those killed in horrendous event of Harrah:
Zayd b. Thābit
Zayd b. Thābit b. Dahhāk who was from among the Ansār and nicknamed as Abā Sa'īd (some reported as Abā Abd al-Rahmān) was killed in the battle of Harrah.[214]
Ya‘qūb b. Talha
Ya'qūb b. Talha b. 'Ubayd Allāh b. 'Uthmān b. Ka'b b. Sa'd b. Tayim b. Murra b. Ka'b b. Lu'ayy b. Ghālib b. Fahr b. Mālik b. Nadr b. Kunāna was killed on the day of Harrah.[215]
Miswar b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān
Miswar b. 'Abd al-Rahmān was killed on the day of Harrah.[216]
‘Abd al-Rahmān b. ‘Āsim
'Abd al-Rahmān b. 'Āsim Ansārī was also killed in the battle of Harrah. He is different from 'Abd Allāh b. Mu'adhdhin as 'Abd Allāh b. Mu'adhdhin who was the son of Zayd b. Tha'laba.[217] Similarity of names has caused confusion among historians.
Mu‘ādh b. Hārith
Mu'ādh b. Hārith b. Arqam b. 'Awf b. Wahb b. 'Amr b. 'Abd 'Awf b. Ghanam b. Mālik b. Najjār Ansārī Khazrajī has been nicknamed as Abā Halīma and is famous with the same. However, he was called Qārī. He was six years old at the time of the Prophet's (s) demise. He participated in the battle of Khandaq, and was killed on the day of Harrah.[218] Some have also reported his name to be M'ādh b. Harith.[219]
‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Amr
'Abd Allāh b. 'Amr b. Sa'd b. Mu'ādh was killed on the day of Harrah.[220]
Asīd b. Rāfi‘
Asīd b. Rāfi' b. Karz b. Sakan b. Za'ūrā b. 'Abd al-Ashhal, was killed on the day of Harrah.[221]
Suwayd b. ‘Awīm
Suwayd b. 'Awīm b. Sā'ida b. 'Ā'is b. Nu'mān b. Zayd b. Umayyah was killed on the day of Harrah.[222]
Habīb b. Khawāt
Habīb b. Khawāt was killed on the day of Harrah.[223]
‘Abd Allāh b. Ka‘b
'Abd Allāh b. Ka'b 'Amr b. 'Awf b. Mabdhūl b. 'Amr b. Ghanam b. Mādhin was killed on the day of Harrah.[224]
Those who didn’t take part in the uprising
Some people are seen among the eminent figures of Medinans who had withdrawn from the uprising of the general public and did not interfere in it from the early phases of the people's revolt and resistance against the Umayyid rule. Although few in number, these people had totally different motives and insights. Imam Zayn al-'Abidīn ('a) was among them who, according to ideological principles and religious criteria, regarded the Umayyid rule as basically usurping and did not have the least belief in Yazīd's competence and the overthrow of his rule was one of the wishes of the Imam ('a) and his household. On the other hand, among the withdrawers from the uprising of the Medinans were such people as 'Abd Allāh b. 'Umar, who, according to what the historians have recorded had a viewpoint and analysis opposite to that of Imam Zayn al-'Abidīn ('a).
'Abd Allāh b. 'Umar. He did not participate in the public protest of the Medinans against Yazīd and the Umayyid rule, neither because he did not view the battle style as inefficient, nor because he regarded the consequences of the uprising as heavy and devastating; rather, he viewed the Umayyid rule and the Yazīd's government as legitimate and simplistically presumed Yazīd as the guardian of the Muslims.
This is implied from his remarks to 'Abd Allāh b. Mutī' - one of the activists in the uprising of Medina - saying: “Whoever abandons obeying a ruler will meet God on the Resurrection Day without a proof and whoever dies and there is not an allegiance of a leader on his neck dies a death of ignorance (Jāhilliyah).”3
If this is really stated by 'Abd Allāh b. 'Umar, it is so surprising that with such contention he refused to swear allegiance to 'Alī b. Abī Tālib during the latter's Caliphate while the people of Medina did swear allegiance to the Imam, and was rated as among the six people who refused allegiance to Imam 'Alī ('a).
He would say: “I must be the last one to pledge allegiance to 'Alī ('a)![225]
It is reported that when Yazīd died and 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwān took over the rule and dispatched Hajjāj to Medina to suppress Ibn Zubayr and his advocates, 'Abd Allāh b. 'Umar went to Hajjāj overnight to swear allegiance and said: “I have come to swear allegiance to the Caliph! “When asked why in such a hurry, 'Abd Allāh b. 'Umar replied: whoever dies and has no leader, dies a death of Jāhiliyyah; and I am afraid I may die overnight without having a leader! Hajjāj heedlessly stretched his leg and said 'kiss my leg instead of my hand'!”[226]
'Abd Allāh b. 'Abbās. 'Abd Allāh b. 'Abbās was the Holy Prophet's (s) cousin who was born in Shi'b of Abū Tālib three years before hijrah and died in Tā'if in the year 80 A.H. (689 C.E.) at the age of 69 while having lost his eye sight and was buried in that place.[227]
Amr b. Khazrajī The reasons for his not participating in the battle of Harrah can be numerous, for it is reported that he became blind and was sick toward the end of his life and since Tā'if had a pleasant climate, he went there for rest and remedy. After the martyrdom of Imam Husayn b. 'Alī ('a), Ibn 'Abbās sent a letter of condemnation to Yazīd, part of which is as follows: “… Do not suppose that I will forget your killing of Imam Husayn ('a) and the youth of the Banī 'Abd al-Muttalib who were beacons of guidance and guiding stars. Your troops left their pure bodies soiled with dust and exposed to the wind.”
Yet, he wrote in another part of his letter: “You killed Husayn and his companions. Nothing is stranger to me than your seeking my companionship! You have killed the sons of my father, and it is my blood that is dripping from your sword.”[228]
This shows that the withdrawal of 'Abd Allāh b. 'Abbās from the uprising of Medina has not been because of avoiding opposition to Umayyid rule, but it has mainly been due to his illness.
Jābir b. 'Abd Allāh Ansārī. Jābir b. 'Abd Allāh b. 'Amr b. Khazrajī Ansārī Sulamī Sahābī[229] died in Medina in 78 A.H. (687 C.E.) at the age of 74 while blinded. Some have reported that he was the last of the Prophet's (s) companions.[230]
Ibn Qutayba Dīnawarī writes: “Jābir was blind during the Harrah battle. He would walk in some alleys of Medina and say: Woe to the one who frightens God and the Messenger! A man asked 'who has frightened God and the Messenger?! Jābir answered: I heard the Messenger of Allah saying: Whoever frightens the people of Medina is as if frightening what is with me. The Syrian man attacked Jābir with his sword to kill him. Marwān drove that man away and ordered to send Jābir back to his house and lock the door behind him.”[231]
Muhammad b. Hanafiyya. Muhammad b. 'Alī b. Abī Tālib b. 'Abd al-Muttalib b. Hāshim b. 'Abd Manāf b. Qusayy, whose mother was Khawla daughter of Ja'far b. Qays b. Muslima from the Hanafiyya tribe, hence known as Hanafiyya.[232]
Ibn Sa'd wrote: “After Imam Husayn ('a) left Medina, Ibn Hanafiyya stayed in that city until he heard that Yazīd troops were approaching; then he left Medina for Mecca, where he stayed with Ibn 'Abbās.”[233]
Notes:
[136] See: Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 46; Zubayrī, Mus‘ab, Nasab-i Quraysh, p. 88; Mas‘ūdī, Murūj al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 70; Nuwayrī, Nahāyat al-Irab, vol. 6, p. 227; Zirklī, Al-A‘lām, vol. 5, p. 355; Ibn Khayyāt, Ta’rīkh, p. 293-314.
[137] Ibn A’tham Kūfi, Al-Futūh, vol. 5, p. 182.
[138] Nuwayrī, Nahāyat al-Irab, vol. 6, p. 227.
[139] Ibn ‘Abd al-Birr Numayrī, Al-Istī‘āb, under the entry Mu‘aqqal; Nuwayrī, Nahāyat al-Irab, vol. 6, p. 277.
[140] Ibn Qutayba, Al-Ma‘arif, p. 187.
[141] Ibn Qutayba, Al-Imāma wa al-Siyāsa, vol. 1, p. 214; Samhūdī, Wafā’ al-Wafā’, vol. 1, p. 133.
[142] Abū Nu‘aym, Hilyat al-Awliyā, vol. 1, p. 369; Ibn Jawzī, Sifat al-Safwah, vol. 1, p. 299; Ibn ‘Asākir, Ta’rīkh-i Damishq, vol. 3, p. 108.
[143] Zubayrī, Mus‘ab, Nasab-i Quraysh, p. 384.
[144] Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 128; Zubayrī, Mus‘ab, Nasab-i Quraysh, p. 215; Dinawari, al-Akhbār al-Tiwal, p. 265; Zirklī Al-A‘lām, vol. 7, p. 6; Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī al-Ta’rīkh, vol. 4, p. 17.
[145] Zubayrī, Mus‘ab, Nasab-i Quraysh, p. 88; Mas‘ūdī, Murūj al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 70; Nuwayrī, Nahāyat al-Irab, vol. 6, p. 227; Ibn Khaldūn, Ta’rīkh, vol. 2, p. 37; Zirklī, Al-A‘lām, vol. 5, p. 355, has also mentioned them.
[146] Ibn Qutayba wrote: The one who was killed in Ibn Zubayr sedition was Mus‘ab b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān (Ma‘ārif, p. 238).
[147] The correct recording is Sakhr b. Ka‘b (Zubayrī, Mus‘ab, Nasab-i Quraysh).
[148] The correct recording is Nā’ilat b. Harim b. Rawāha (Ibn Khayyāt, Ta’rīkh-i Khalīfah bin al-Khayyāt, vol. 1, p. 299).
[149] Or, Ziyād b. Abī Umayma. However, Zubayrī in his book, Nasab-i Quraysh, p. 446, has not mentioned his name.
[150] The correct recording is Shaybān b. Muhārib (Zubayrī, Mus‘ab, Nasab-i Quraysh, p. 447).
[151] There will be a detailed discussion about ‘Abd Allāh b. Hanzala in the following pages.
[152] The correct recording is Akāshat b. Yazīd b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān b. Yazīd.
[153] The correct recording is Dhakwān b. Mawlā b. Hanzala
[154] The correct recording is Yazīd b. Muhammad b Muslima (Ibn Hajar ‘Asqalānī, Al-Isāba, translation p. 7808).
[155] Ibn Khayyāt, Ta’rīkh-i Khalīfah ibn al-Khayyāt, p. 293-314.
[156] Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 46.
[157] Tābi‘ī (successor) is a person who had met and accepted the companions of the Prophet (s), and died as a Muslim (Al-Munjad, under the entry taba‘).
[158] Zirklī, Al-A‘lām, vol. 4, p. 233.
[159] The Prophet (s) said on the day of Battle of Uhud: I saw the angels in between the earth and the heaven with golden vessels filled with water from the well belonging to Muzan tribe, were giving him ghusl. Thus, he was known as Ghasīl al-Malā’ika (Qummī, Safīnat al-Bihār, vol. 2, p. 317).
[160] Ibn Taghrī Birdī, al-Nujum al-Zāhira, vol. 1, p. 161.
[161] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 49; Ibn Qutayba, Al-Imāma wa al-Siyāsa, vol. 2, p. 10; Yāfi‘ī, Mir’āt al-Jinān, vol. 1, p. 137.
[162] Najrān is a Yemani village in the region of Mecca (Yāqūt Hamawī, Mu‘jam al-Buldān, vol. 5, p. 266).
[163] Nawawī, Tahdhīb al-Asmā’wa al-Lughāt, part one, p. 88.
[164] Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 55.
[165] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 56.
[166] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 57.
[167] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 57 and vol. 8, p. 383.
[168] Ibn Athīr, al-Kāmil, vol. 4, p. 117.
[169] Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 59.
[170] Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 60.
[171] ‘Ayn al-Tamr was a hamlet near Anbār on the west of Kūfa. The Muslims under Khālid b. Walīd conqured it in 12 A.H. (Yāqūt Hamawī, Mu‘jam al-Buldān, vol. 4, p. 176).
[172] Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 62.
[173] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 125.
[174] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 126.
[175] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 127; Ibn ‘Abd al-Birr Numarī, Al-Istī‘āb, vol. 1, p. 55.
[176] Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 128.
[177] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 128.
[178] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 128.
[179] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 132.
[180] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 144.
[181] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 156.
[182] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 188.
[183] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 189.
[184] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 191.
[185] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 192.
[186] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 193.
[187] Ibid, vol. 5, 194-196, vol. 8, p. 416.
[188] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 196.
[189] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 197.
[190] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 199.
[191] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 202.
[192] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 203.
[193] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 205.
[194] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 206.
[195] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 207.
[196] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 218.
[197] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 220.
[198] Yāfi‘ī, Mir’āt al-Jinān, vol. 1, p. 137.
[199] Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 7, p. 27.
[200] Ibid, vol. 7, p. 27.
[201] Ibid, vol. 6, p. 63.
[202] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 58.
[203] Zubayrī, Mus‘ab, Nasab-i Quraysh, p. 88.
[204] Ibid, p. 256.
[205] Ibid, p. 88.
[206] Ibid, p. 279.
[207] Ibid, p. 228.
[208] Ibid, p. 252.
[209] Ibid, p. 306 and 332; Abū al-Faraj al-Isfahānī, Aghānī, vol. 1, p. 23.
[210] Ibid, p. 346.
[211] Ibid, p. 361.
[212] Zubayrī, Mus‘ab, Nasab-i Quraysh, p. 386.
[213] Zirklī, Al-A‘lām, vol. 5, p. 98; in Dhahabī, Ta’rīkh al-Islām, vol. 2, p. 358, it is mentioned as Yazīd b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān.
[214] Ibn Qutayba, Ma‘ārif, p. 260.
[215] Ibid, p. 260.
[216] Ibid, p. 240.
[217] Ibn Athīr, Kāmil, vol. 4, p. 121; Ibn Taghrī Birdī, al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 1, p. 161.
[218] Ibn Hajar ‘Asqalānī, Al-Isāba, vol. 3, p. 427.
[219] Yāfi‘ī, Mir’āt al-Jinān, vol. 1, p. 138; Ibn Kathīr, Al-Bidāya wa al-Nihāya, vol. 6, p. 234.
[220] Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, p. 420.
[221] Ibid, vol. 3, p. 442 and 442.
[222] Ibid, p. 459.
[223] Ibid, p. 477.
[224] Ibid, p. 518.
[225] Ibn Abī al-Hadīd, Sharh Nahj al-Balāgha, vol. 4, p. 11.
[226] Ibid, vol. 3, p. 242.
[227] Dhahabī, Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalā, vol. 3, p. 354; Ibn Abī al-Hadīd, Sharh Nahj al-Balāgha, vol. 20, p. 130, 134.
[228] Ya‘qūbī, Ta’rīkh, vol. 2, p. 250; Tabarī, Ta’rīkh, vol. 4, p. 128.
[229] Ibn Hajar ‘Asqalānī, Al-Isāba, vol. 1, p. 213; Ibn Qutayba, Al-Ma’ārif, p. 307.
[230] Dhahabī, Ta’rīkh al-Islām, vol. 5, p. 27.
[231] Ibn Qutayba, Al-Imāma wa al-Siyāsa, vol. 1, p. 214.
[232] Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 66.
[233] Ibid, vol. 5, p. 73.
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