Uyayna ibn Hisn's raid on Banu Tamim

A raid the Prophet sent in Muharram of year 9 AH under Uyayna ibn Hisn al-Fazari with fifty horsemen — no Muhajir or Ansari among them — against Banu Tamim, who had incited the tribes and withheld the jizya ¹.

Uyayna set out travelling by night and lying hid by day until he fell on them in the desert; they turned in flight and he took of them eleven men, twenty-one women and thirty boys, driving them to Medina where they were lodged in the house of Ramla bint al-Harith ¹.

Ten of their chiefs came, called out to the Prophet and spoke with him, showing their wish for a contest of boasting; they put forward their orator Utarid ibn Hajib, and Islam's orator Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas answered him; then they put forward their poet al-Zibriqan ibn Badr, who recited his boasts, and Islam's poet Hassan ibn Thabit answered him extempore ².

When the two orators and two poets had finished, al-Aqra' ibn Habis said: his orator is more eloquent than ours, his poet more poetic than ours, their voices louder than ours and their words loftier than ours; so they became Muslim — the Prophet rewarded them generously and restored their women and children ³.