{
 "id": "person/wahshi-ibn-harb",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "wahshi-ibn-harb",
 "label": {
  "en": "Wahshi ibn Harb",
  "ar": "وحشي بن حرب"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "An Abyssinian slave famous for his javelin: promised his freedom for killing Hamza at Uhud, he later became a Muslim and, in the tradition's account, also killed the false prophet Musaylima at Yamama.",
  "ar": "عبد حبشي اشتهر بحربته: وُعد بالحرية على قتل حمزة بأحد، ثم أسلم وفي رواية التراث قتل مسيلمة الكذاب باليمامة."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "battles",
  "slavery-and-freedom",
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 600.0006160290766,
  "latest": 646.0001916534588
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0600~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0645~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Date uncertain; he lived into the caliphate.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "وحشي بن حرب الحبشي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0600~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0645~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Date uncertain; he lived into the caliphate.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "military-opponent",
    "toward": "group/early-muslims",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0625"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0625"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Fought at Uhud and killed Hamza with a javelin, earning his freedom from his owner Jubayr ibn Mut'im.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Converted after the conquest; the tradition records him keeping away from the Prophet at first, from the weight of what he had done.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "commander",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0633"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Fought at Yamama; the tradition attributes to his javelin the killing of Musaylima — 'I killed the best of people and the worst of people.'",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
     "source/tabari-donner-1993"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630~"
    },
    "note": "Late convert; the tradition preserves his own words about his two killings.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/tabari-donner-1993"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "كان وحشي بن حرب عبدًا حبشيًّا اشتهر بحربته. في أحد قتل [[person/hamza|حمزة]] ابتغاء حريته؛ وأسلم بعد الفتح — ويقول التراث إن حربته قتلت بعدئذ مدّعي النبوة مسيلمة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "وعده مولاه جبير بن مطعم بالحرية إن قتل عمّ النبي. وفي [[event/battle-of-uhud|أحد]] رمى وحشي الحربة التي قتلت حمزة {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nوبعد الفتح كان يتجنّب النبي — يذكر التراث قوله إنه خاف ألّا يُغفر له. فأسلم، ويُروى أن النبي قبله وطلب إليه ألّا يراه {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nوفي [[event/battle-of-yamama|اليمامة]] سنة 632 أصابت حربته [[person/musaylima|مسيلمة]]. ويحفظ التراث تلخيصه بلسانه: «قتلت خير الناس وقتلت شرّ الناس» {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "حربتا وحشي تؤطّر الحقبة: رجل أصاب سلاحه أول شهداء الدين الكبار ثم أول مدّعيه الكبار."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "قتلت حربة وحشي بطلًا من أبطال الإسلام — ثم قتلت، بعد أن صار مسلمًا، الرجل الذي ادّعى النبوة كذبًا. وهو من قال ذلك."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/wahshi-ibn-harb",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Wahshi ibn Harb was an Abyssinian slave famed for his javelin. At Uhud he killed [[person/hamza|Hamza]] to win his freedom; after the conquest he became a Muslim — and the tradition says his javelin later killed the false prophet Musaylima."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "His owner Jubayr ibn Mut'im promised him freedom if he killed the Prophet's uncle. At [[event/battle-of-uhud|Uhud]] Wahshi threw the javelin that killed Hamza {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nAfter the conquest he kept out of the Prophet's sight — the tradition remembers him saying he feared he could not be forgiven. He converted, and the Prophet is reported to have accepted him while asking him to keep from his presence {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nAt [[event/battle-of-yamama|Yamama]] in 632 his javelin found [[person/musaylima|Musaylima]]. The tradition preserves his own summation: \"I killed the best of people and the worst of people\" {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "Wahshi's two javelins frame the era: the man whose weapon killed the faith's first great martyr and then its first great pretender."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Wahshi's spear killed a hero of Islam — and then, after he joined the Muslims, killed the man who falsely claimed to be a prophet. He said so himself."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/wahshi-ibn-harb",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 12,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-masud",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abu-dharr-al-ghifari",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/ali-ibn-abi-talib",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas",
  "person/sajah",
  "person/salman-al-farisi",
  "person/umm-ayman"
 ],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/aksum",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/hamza",
   "type": "fought",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0625"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0625"
   },
   "note": "The sources record that he killed Hamza at Uhud.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-uhud",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "meccan-side",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-yamama",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "muslim-side",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/musaylima",
   "type": "fought",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "note": "The tradition attributes Musaylima's death to his javelin.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/uhud-martyrdom-of-hamza",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "قتل حمزة بحربته طمعاً في العتق",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/battle-of-uhud",
  "event/uhud-martyrdom-of-hamza",
  "person/hamza",
  "place/uhud",
  "group/early-muslims",
  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
  "event/battle-of-badr",
  "event/uhud-banner-bearers"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}