Hurmuzan before Umar
هرمزان بين يدي عمر
Carried to Umar, Hurmuzan was spared and stipended; Anas ibn Malik, his escort, narrates: 'Speak' — 'a living man's speech or a dead man's?' — 'no harm'. 'We Persians, so long as God left us between you, raided and killed you; when God was with you we had no hands against you.' Then 'what say you, Anas?' — 'I left a fierce force behind; count him a dog: kill it and the folk despair of life and grow fiercer, spare it and they hope.' Umar marvelled — Bara' and Majza'a had warned Anas not to kill him; doubting whether 'no harm' licensed the speech, Anas went out and al-Zubayr bore witness for him. Freed, Hurmuzan converted — then, accused of counselling Abu Lu'lu'a over Umar's murder, Ubaydallah ibn Umar drew him to see a horse and struck him dead unawares.
At a glance
- Era
- The Rashidun Caliphate
- Review
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Connections
- Had participant
- الهرمزان· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Anas ibn Malik· Ubaydallah ibn Umar
- Occurred at
- Medina
People and things also explored
Umar ibn al-Khattab· Medina· Abu Sufyan's mission to Medina· al-Ahnaf's Petition to Umar for Basra· The affair of the Badr prisoners· The Battle of Nihawand (Fath al-Futuh)· The Battle of Uhud· The brotherhood of the Muhajirun and Ansar
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Hurmuzan before Umar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/hurmuzan-umar-dialogue/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.