The Qulayb at Badr
القليب — دفن قتلى المشركين ببدر
Ramadan 2 AH
After the battle the Quraysh dead were cast into a pit (the qulayb) at Badr, where the Prophet addressed them by name; when Umar asked how he spoke to the dead he answered that they heard him no less than the living.
At a glance
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
The Qulayb: a covered well in the land of Badr into which the bodies of the slain polytheists were cast after the battle, and the Prophet stood over it calling to them 1.
What happened
When the battle ended, the polytheist dead were ordered thrown into the Qulayb; then the Prophet stood at its edge calling them by name: "O so-and-so son of so-and-so, and so-and-so son of so-and-so, were you ill tribesmen to your Prophet? Do you confirm that God fulfilled His promise to you?" 1 2.
Umar asked him: do you speak to the dead, who cannot hear? He answered that they hear what he says no less than they do; the book says the address was rebuke and declaration, not a question expecting an answer 1.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Badr
- Part of
- The Battle of Badr
- Had participant
- MuhammadUmar ibn al-Khattab
People and things also explored
The Battle of BadrThe Badr war councilThe affair of the Badr prisonersThe Battle of Uhudal-Nadr ibn al-HarithUqba ibn Abi Mu'aytConversion of Umayr ibn WahbThe Hijra
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, p. 225
- Mishkat al-Masabih — al-Tabrizi
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Qulayb at Badr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/badr-qulayb/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.