{
 "id": "person/utba-ibn-rabia",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "utba-ibn-rabia",
 "label": {
  "en": "Utba ibn Rabi'a",
  "ar": "عتبة بن ربيعة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "An elder of Banu Abd Shams who argued for a negotiated settlement with Muhammad — and is remembered dying at Badr, father of Hind bint Utba.",
  "ar": "شيخ من بني عبد شمس كان يرى المساومة مع محمد — ويذكر مقتولًا ببدر، وهو والد هند بنت عتبة."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "anti-muslim-hatred",
  "battles"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 565.0019507587424,
  "latest": 624.1982381568093
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0565~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0624-03-13",
   "hijri": "0002-09-17",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "Killed at Badr, 17 Ramadan 2 AH.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "عتبة بن ربيعة بن عبد شمس"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0565~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0624-03-13",
   "hijri": "0002-09-17",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "Killed at Badr, 17 Ramadan 2 AH.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "opponent",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0613~"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "interlocutor",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0619~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Carried Quraysh's offer of wealth and kingship to the Prophet and heard his answer; the sira has him advise against fighting at Badr.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "military-opponent",
    "toward": "group/early-muslims",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0624"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Marched with the army despite his doubts and was killed at Badr.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "documented",
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1953-mecca"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "عتبة بن ربيعة شيخ من بني عبد شمس كان يرى شراء سلم مع النبي لا قتاله — مفاوض المعارضة، وقُتل مع أشرافها ببدر."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "تعطي السيرة عتبة أظرف مشاهدها في التسوية: بعثه الشيوخ يعرض على محمد المال والملك والطبيب إن كفّ، فجلس يسمع، وعاد إلى المجلس — تقول المصادر — محذّرًا أن هذا الرجل ليس بمجنون وأنهم سيندمون على قتاله {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nوفي بدر يجعله التراث ينصح بالرجوع والجيش زاحف؛ فقُتل هناك مع أشراف قريش {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}. وابنته [[person/hind-bint-utba|هند]] زوجة [[person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb|أبي سفيان]] لاحقًا — وتاريخ البيت يحمل قوس الحرب كلها."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "يمثل عتبة المعارضة التي تكلمت: الطريق الذي لم يُسلك في بدر، حفظته المصادر بديلًا حقيقيًّا جُودل عليه وخاب."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "حاول عتبة أن يصنع صفقة بدل الحرب. فشلت الصفقة ووقعت الحرب ومات فيها — وبيت ابنته على جانبي القصة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/utba-ibn-rabia",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Utba ibn Rabi'a was an elder of Banu Abd Shams who argued for buying off the Prophet rather than fighting him — the opposition's negotiator, killed with the rest of the elite at Badr."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "The sira gives Utba its most interesting scene of attempted settlement: sent by the elders to offer Muhammad wealth, kingship and a physician if only he would stop, he sat and listened, returned to the council, and — the sources say — warned them this man was no madman and they would regret fighting him {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nAt Badr the tradition has him counsel retreat even as the army marched; he died there with the elite of Quraysh {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}. His daughter was [[person/hind-bint-utba|Hind]], later the wife of [[person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb|Abu Sufyan]] — the family's own history carrying the whole arc of the war."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "Utba stands for the opposition that talked: the path not taken at Badr, preserved by the sources as a real alternative, argued and lost."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Utba tried to make a deal instead of a war. The deal failed, the war happened, and he died in it — with his daughter's family on both sides of the story."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/utba-ibn-rabia",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 20,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abu-lahab",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/hamza",
  "person/salman-al-farisi",
  "person/al-walid-ibn-al-mughira",
  "person/abu-talib",
  "person/mutim-ibn-adi",
  "person/khadija"
 ],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/hind-bint-utba",
   "type": "parent_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "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": "event/battle-of-badr",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "meccan-side",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/badr-duel",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "مبارز عن قريش؛ قُتل",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/journey-to-taif",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "صاحب البستان مع أخيه شيبة أرسلا عنباً مع عداس",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/last-quraysh-delegation-to-abu-talib",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "من رؤساء الوفد",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/utba-offer",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "عرض العروض ثم أسمعه النبي فصلت",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/abu-jahl",
  "person/umayya-ibn-khalaf",
  "person/uqba-ibn-abi-muayt",
  "place/mecca",
  "group/quraysh",
  "person/muhammad",
  "person/al-nadr-ibn-al-harith",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}