{
 "id": "person/musaylima",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "musaylima",
 "label": {
  "en": "Musaylima",
  "ar": "مسيلمة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Chief and religious claimant of Banu Hanifa in Yamama who preached a parallel prophecy to Muhammad's and exchanged letters with him — killed at Yamama in the bloodiest battle of the Ridda wars.",
  "ar": "سيد بني حنيفة باليمامة ادّعى النبوة في موازاة محمد وراسله — قُتل باليمامة في أدمى معارك حروب الردة."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "civil-wars-and-revolts",
  "battles",
  "prophets"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 580.0002053430255,
  "latest": 633.0006091842774
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0580~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0632-12~",
   "hijri": "0011-12~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "Killed at the battle of Yamama (Aqraba'), Rabi' II or Jumada 12 AH / late 632 CE; the tradition attributes the blow to Wahshi ibn Harb.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993",
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "مسيلمة بن حبيب الحنفي"
   },
   {
    "kind": "laqab",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "مسيلمة الكذاب"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0580~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0632-12~",
   "hijri": "0011-12~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "Killed at the battle of Yamama (Aqraba'), Rabi' II or Jumada 12 AH / late 632 CE; the tradition attributes the blow to Wahshi ibn Harb.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993",
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "politician"
  ],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "rival-claimant",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630~"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Claimed prophecy among Banu Hanifa while Muhammad lived; the sources preserve their exchange of letters.",
    "sources": [
     "source/tabari-donner-1993",
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "rebel",
    "toward": "polity/rashidun-caliphate",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Led Banu Hanifa against the caliphate's army at Yamama; the battle's cost in memorizers of the Qur'an is remembered as hastening the codex's collection.",
    "sources": [
     "source/tabari-donner-1993"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "debated",
    "note": "His own prophetic movement drew on Hanifan monotheism and possibly Christian influence; the tradition names him al-Kadhdhab, 'the liar.'",
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1956-medina",
     "source/tabari-donner-1993"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "labelled": [
   {
    "label": {
     "en": "al-Kadhdhab (the arch-liar)",
     "ar": "الكذاب"
    },
    "by": "Muslim tradition",
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/tabari-donner-1993"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/tabari-donner-1993",
   "source/watt-1956-medina",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "مسيلمة بن حبيب سيد بني حنيفة باليمامة — ادّعى النبوة في موازاة محمد وراسله في تقسيمها، ثم قاد قومه في أدمى معارك الردة فقُتل بها."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "كانت بنو حنيفة أعظم قبائل اليمامة، وادّعى مسيلمة الرسالة بين ظهرانيها والنبي حيّ. تحفظ المصادر رسالته «من مسيلمة رسول الله إلى محمد رسول الله» يقترح أن يكون له نصف الأمر — وجواب النبي عليه {cite:tabari-donner-1993} {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nولما مات النبي وأرسل أبو بكر [[person/khalid-ibn-al-walid|خالدًا]]، التقى الجيشان بـ[[event/battle-of-yamama|عقرباء اليمامة]] سنة 632م — معركة انتهت بقتل مسيلمة، تنسب الرواية ضربتها إلى حربة [[person/wahshi-ibn-harb|وحشي]]، وبكثرة قتلى حفاظ القرآن حتى عُدّت سببًا في الإسراع بجمعه {cite:tabari-donner-1993}.\n\n:::perspectives\nيسمّيه التراث السني «الكذاب»: مدّعي نبوة زائفة ارتدّ قومه معه فقاتلهم أبو بكر.\n\nأما المؤرخون فيقرؤونه زعيمًا دينيًّا قبليًّا حقيقيًّا حاولت اليمامة به حفظ استقلالها عن المركز الجديد في المدينة.\n:::"
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "ادّعى مسيلمة أنه نبي مثل محمد وكتب له يقترح أن يقسما الأمر بينهما. ولمّا مات النبي تقاتل قومهما في معركة عظيمة قُتل فيها."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/musaylima",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 16,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abu-bakr",
  "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/malik-ibn-awf",
  "person/salman-al-farisi",
  "person/suhayl-ibn-amr"
 ],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/yamama",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/yamama",
   "type": "died_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/banu-hanifa",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad",
   "type": "corresponded_with",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0630~"
   },
   "note": "The sources preserve his letter proposing a partition of prophecy and Muhammad's reply.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993",
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
   "type": "fought",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-yamama",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "hanifa-commander",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sajah",
   "type": "spouse_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/wahshi-ibn-harb",
   "type": "fought_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "note": "The tradition attributes Musaylima's death to his javelin.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/battle-of-uhud",
  "event/battle-of-hunayn",
  "event/conquest-of-mecca",
  "event/treaty-of-hudaybiyya",
  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
  "person/muhammad",
  "place/mecca",
  "person/tulayha-ibn-khuwaylid"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}