{
 "id": "event/conversion-of-umayr-ibn-wahb",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "conversion-of-umayr-ibn-wahb",
 "label": {
  "en": "Conversion of Umayr ibn Wahb",
  "ar": "إسلام عمير بن وهب"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Umayr ibn Wahb and Safwan ibn Umayya plotted at the Kaaba to assassinate the Prophet in Medina; when Umayr arrived, the Prophet disclosed their secret pact, leading Umayr to embrace Islam.",
  "ar": "تآمر عمير بن وهب وصفوان بن أمية في الحجر على اغتيال النبي بالمدينة بعد بدر؛ فلما قدم على النبي أخبره بسرهما الذي لم يعلمه أحد، فأسلم عمير ورجع إلى مكة داعياً إلى الإسلام."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time",
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 624.2475204829668,
  "latest": 624.3296576931448
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0624-04~",
   "hijri": "0002-10",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "في شوال سنة 2هـ إثر هزيمة قريش ببدر (الرحيق ص233–234)"
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0624-04~",
   "hijri": "0002-10",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "في شوال سنة 2هـ إثر هزيمة قريش ببدر (الرحيق ص233–234)"
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0624-04~",
    "hijri": "0002-10",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "في شوال سنة 2هـ إثر هزيمة قريش ببدر (الرحيق ص233–234)"
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/ibn-hisham-sira",
   "source/zad-al-maad"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Antigravity; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 233–234 citing Ibn Hisham 1/661–663 and Zad al-Maad 2/90"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بعد هزيمة قريش في معركة بدر، جلس [[person/umayr-ibn-wahb|عمير بن وهب الجمحي]] مع [[person/safwan-ibn-umayya|صفوان بن أمية]] في الحجر بمكة يذكران مصاب قريش وأسراهم، وكان ابن عمير أسيراً بالمدينة في يد المسلمين. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.233}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المؤامرة في الحِجر",
     "markdown": "قال عمير لصفوان: «لولا دَينٌ علي ليس له عندي قضاء، وعيال أخشى عليهم الضيعة بعدي، لركبت إلى محمد حتى أقتله»، فتحمل صفوان ديونه كلها وضمن الإنفاق على عياله ما بقوا، وشحذ عمير سيفه وسمّه وتوجه سراً إلى [[place/medina|المدينة المنورة]]. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.233} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/661}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المكاشفة والإسلام",
     "markdown": "أناخ عمير بباب المسجد متوشحاً سيفه، فرآه [[person/umar-ibn-al-khattab|عمر بن الخطاب]] فأمسكه بحمالة سيفه وأدخله على النبي محترساً، فأمره النبي بإطلاقه وقال له: «ما جاء بك يا عمير؟» قال: جئت لهذا الأسير، فسأله: «فما بال السيف في عنقك؟» قال: قبحها الله من سيوف، وهل أغنت عنا شيئاً؟ {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.234}\n\nفقال له النبي: «بل قعدت أنت وصفوان بن أمية في الحجر، فذكرتما أصحاب القليب من قريش، ثم قلت: لولا دين علي وعيال لخرجت حتى أقتل محمداً، فتحمل لك صفوان بدينك وعيالك على أن تقتلني، والله حائل بينك وبين ذلك». {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.234}\n\nفصاح عمير: «أشهد أنك رسول الله، هذا أمر لم يحضره إلا أنا وصفوان، فوالله إني لأعلم ما أتاك به إلا الله»، فأسلم وحسن إسلامه، ورجع إلى مكة داعياً إلى الإسلام فأسلم على يديه جمع غفير. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.234} {cite:zad-al-maad 2/90}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/conversion-of-umayr-ibn-wahb",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "After Quraysh's defeat at Badr, [[person/umayr-ibn-wahb|Umayr ibn Wahb al-Jumahi]] sat with [[person/safwan-ibn-umayya|Safwan ibn Umayya]] at the Hijr in Mecca, recalling Quraysh's loss and their captives — Umayr's own son being a captive in Medina in Muslim hands. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 233}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The plot at the Hijr",
     "markdown": "Umayr said to Safwan: \"were it not for a debt I cannot pay and dependants I fear would be lost after me, I would ride to Muhammad and kill him.\" Safwan took on all his debts and guaranteed the upkeep of his dependants for as long as they lived; Umayr sharpened his sword, poisoned it and set out secretly for [[place/medina|Medina]]. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 233} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/661}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The confrontation and the conversion",
     "markdown": "Umayr halted his camel at the mosque door, girt with his sword; [[person/umar-ibn-al-khattab|Umar ibn al-Khattab]] saw him, seized him by his sword-belt and brought him before the Prophet on guard. The Prophet ordered him released and said: \"what brings you, Umayr?\" He said: I came for this captive. He asked: \"then what of the sword round your neck?\" He said: God confound swords — did they avail us anything? {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 234}\n\nThe Prophet said to him: \"rather, you sat with Safwan ibn Umayya at the Hijr and spoke of the men of the Qulayb of Quraysh; then you said: were it not for a debt upon me and dependants, I would set out and kill Muhammad — and Safwan undertook your debt and your dependants on condition that you kill me, and God stands between you and that.\" {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 234}\n\nUmayr cried out: \"I bear witness that you are the Messenger of God — none attended that matter but Safwan and me, and by God I know that none but God could have brought it to you.\" He became Muslim and his Islam proved sound; he returned to Mecca calling to Islam, and a great company became Muslim at his hands. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 234} {cite:zad-al-maad 2/90}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/conversion-of-umayr-ibn-wahb",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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   "inverse": true,
   "role": "الوافد لاغتيال النبي والمعلن إسلامه",
   "sources": [
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   "role": "المتآمر والمتحمل لدين عمير وعياله بمكة",
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   "role": "المكاشف بالسر والمتقبل لإسلامه",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
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   "to": "person/umar-ibn-al-khattab",
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   "role": "الممسك بعمير عند دخوله المسجد",
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  "event/battle-of-uhud",
  "event/hijra",
  "event/badr-prisoners",
  "event/death-of-abdullah-ibn-ubayy",
  "screen/al-risala-1976",
  "event/battle-of-badr",
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  "person/umar-ibn-al-khattab"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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