{
 "id": "person/uqba-ibn-abi-muayt",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "uqba-ibn-abi-muayt",
 "label": {
  "en": "Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt",
  "ar": "عقبة بن أبي معيط"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A Qurashi of Banu Abd Shams among the documented harassers of the Prophet in Mecca; captured at Badr, he was one of the two captives executed on the march home — a fact the sources record soberly.",
  "ar": "قرشي من بني عبد شمس من الموثق أذاهم للنبي بمكة؛ أُسر ببدر وكان أحد الأسيرين اللذين أُعدما في طريق العودة — حقيقة تسجلها المصادر بجفاف."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "anti-muslim-hatred",
  "battles"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 570.0013689535035,
  "latest": 624.2475204829352
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0570~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0624-03",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "Taken captive at Badr and executed on the return march, March 624 CE.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
    "source/watt-1953-mecca"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "عقبة بن أبي معيط بن عمرو بن أمية"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0570~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0624-03",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "Taken captive at Badr and executed on the return march, March 624 CE.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
    "source/watt-1953-mecca"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "persecutor",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0613~"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0622"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "The sources document specific acts: throwing offal on the Prophet while he prayed, and throttling him with his cloak.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "military-opponent",
    "toward": "group/early-muslims",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0624"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Fought on the Meccan side at Badr; captured and executed.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "documented",
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1953-mecca"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/watt-1953-mecca",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "عقبة بن أبي معيط قرشي تسجل المصادر له أذى محددًا ماديًّا بالنبي — وأحد أسيرين أُعدما بعد بدر، حقيقة تسجلها الرواية نفسها دون تجميل."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "تربط المصادر عقبة بأقبح مشاهد السنين المكية الصغيرة: إلقائه سلا الجزور على النبي وهو ساجد، وخنقه بثوبه عند الكعبة حتى انتهى إليه أبو بكر {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nوأُسر ببدر فأُعدم في طريق العودة — أحد أسيرين (الآخر [[person/al-nadr-ibn-al-harith|النضر بن الحارث]]) خُصّا بالإعدام، وتعلل المصادر ذلك بسجلّه في الأذى {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume} {cite:watt-1953-mecca}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "يعرضه المعرض بجفاف كما تعرضه المصادر: رجل جُازي على أفعاله الموثقة بعد المعركة بمثلها. وهو خزانة عرض صعبة — حرب وأسر وانتقام في الجيل الأول."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "آذى عقبة النبي في الناس مرارًا. وبعد أول معركة كبرى كان واحدًا من أسيرين فقط لم يُعفَ عنهما."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/uqba-ibn-abi-muayt",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt was a Qurashi whom the sources record doing specific, physical harm to the Prophet — and one of two captives executed after Badr, a fact the tradition itself records without decoration."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "The sources tie Uqba to the ugliest small scenes of the Meccan years: throwing the offal of a slaughtered camel on the Prophet as he prostrated, and throttling him with his cloak by the Kaaba until Abu Bakr intervened {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nCaptured at Badr, he was put to death on the return march — one of two captives (the other, [[person/al-nadr-ibn-al-harith|al-Nadr ibn al-Harith]]) singled out for execution, which the sources justify by his record of harassment {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume} {cite:watt-1953-mecca}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "The museum records him plainly, as the sources do: a man whose documented acts were paid back, after the battle, in kind. His case is a hard display case — war, captivity and revenge in the first generation."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Uqba hurt the Prophet in public, again and again. After the first big battle he was one of only two prisoners who were not spared."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/uqba-ibn-abi-muayt",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 16,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abu-lahab",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/hamza",
  "person/khosrow-ii",
  "person/muhammad",
  "person/salman-al-farisi",
  "person/suhayl-ibn-amr",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/abu-jahl"
 ],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/badr",
   "type": "died_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/banu-abd-shams",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/quraysh",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad",
   "type": "persecuted",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0613~"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0622"
   },
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-badr",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "meccan-side",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/badr-prisoners",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "أُعدم بعرق الظبية؛ القاتل عاصم بن ثابت وقيل علي (الرحيق ص228)",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/sunan-abi-dawud"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/hijra-departure",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "من الأحد عشر رئيساً",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/al-nadr-ibn-al-harith",
  "person/abu-jahl",
  "person/umayya-ibn-khalaf",
  "person/musab-ibn-umayr",
  "event/battle-of-badr",
  "person/suhayl-ibn-amr",
  "person/umar-ibn-al-khattab",
  "person/muhammad"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}