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 "id": "person/malik-ibn-awf",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "malik-ibn-awf",
 "label": {
  "en": "Malik ibn Awf al-Nasri",
  "ar": "مالك بن عوف النصري"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "The young commander of Hawazin who fielded the tribal confederation against the Muslims at Hunayn — and within weeks accepted Islam, reconciled with the Prophet at al-Ji'rana, and led his people back to their faith and their property.",
  "ar": "القائد الشاب لهوازن الذي ساق الاتحاد القبلي في مقابل المسلمين بحُنين — ثم أسلم بعد أسابيع، وصالحه النبي بالجعرانة، وعاد بقومه إلى ديارهم وأموالهم."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "battles",
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 580.0002053430255,
  "latest": 641.0007734586977
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0580~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0640~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Date uncertain; survived into the caliphate.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "مالك بن عوف النصري"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0580~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0640~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Date uncertain; survived into the caliphate.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "general"
  ],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "military-opponent",
    "toward": "group/early-muslims",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Commanded the Hawazin-Thaqif confederation at Hunayn, weeks after the conquest of Mecca.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Came to the Prophet at al-Ji'rana during the siege of Ta'if, accepted Islam, and was appointed over the Muslims of his people.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "documented",
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/watt-1956-medina"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "مالك بن عوف القائد الشاب الذي ساق اتحاد هوازن كله في مقابل المسلمين بحُنين — ثم جاء إلى النبي بالجعرانة بعد أسابيع فأسلم، وعاد بقومه إلى ديارهم."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "بعد فتح مكة اجتمعت [[group/hawazin|هوازن]] وثقيف في مقابل النظام الجديد؛ وأصرّ مالك — وفي المصادر أبو ثلاثين — على إخراج نساء القبائل وأطفالها وأموالها إلى [[event/battle-of-hunayn|حُنين]] ليقاتل الرجال حتى النهاية {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume} {cite:watt-1956-medina}.\n\nفلما هُزم تحصّن في قلعة الطائف. ثم خرج أثناء [[event/siege-of-taif|الحصار]] إلى النبي بالجعرانة فأسلم، فولّاه النبي على مسلمي قومه — واسترد سبيهم وأموالهم في العفو المشهور {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "تُروى حُنين في الغالب معركة رُبحت وخُسرت في صبيحة؛ ومالك نصفها الآخر — القائد المهزوم الذي أغلق الحرب بإسلامه بعد أسابيع."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "خسر مالك معركة أمام المسلمين — ثم انضم إليهم، فأُعيدت إليه عائلات قومه وقطعانهم التي أُخذت."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/malik-ibn-awf",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Malik ibn Awf was the young commander who fielded Hawazin's whole confederation against the Muslims at Hunayn — and within weeks came to the Prophet at al-Ji'rana, accepted Islam, and led his people home."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "After the conquest of Mecca, [[group/hawazin|Hawazin]] and Thaqif gathered against the new order; Malik — barely thirty in the sources — insisted on bringing the tribes' women, children and flocks to the field at [[event/battle-of-hunayn|Hunayn]] so the men would fight to the end {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume} {cite:watt-1956-medina}.\n\nDefeated, he withdrew into the fortress of Ta'if. Then, during the [[event/siege-of-taif|siege]], he came out to the Prophet at al-Ji'rana, accepted Islam, and was set over the Muslims of his own people — recovering their captives and property in the famous amnesty {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "Hunayn's story is often told as the battle won and lost in a morning; Malik is its other half — the defeated commander whose conversion closed the war weeks later."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Malik lost a battle to the Muslims — then joined them, and was given his people's captured families and flocks back."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/malik-ibn-awf",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
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  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "person/bilal-ibn-rabah",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/heraclius",
  "person/hind-bint-utba",
  "person/salman-al-farisi",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/uthman-ibn-affan",
  "person/suhayl-ibn-amr"
 ],
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   "to": "group/hawazin",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/early-muslims",
   "type": "fought",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0630"
   },
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    "edtf": "0630"
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  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-hunayn",
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   "inverse": false,
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  {
   "to": "event/siege-of-taif",
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   "inverse": false,
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   "to": "person/muhammad",
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  "group/hawazin",
  "event/battle-of-hunayn",
  "event/siege-of-taif",
  "group/thaqif",
  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "event/conquest-of-mecca",
  "place/mecca"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}