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Banu Waqif

بنو واقف

A clan to which Ibn Ishaq ascribes Hilal ibn Umayya al-Waqifi, one of the three left behind.

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Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Summary

A clan to which Ibn Ishaq traces Hilal ibn Umayya. 1

Connections

Has member
Hilal ibn Umayya al-Waqifi

People and things also explored

The fifty-night boycott of the threeThe order that the three keep apart from their wivesThe acceptance of the repentance of the threeThe three who were left behind after TabukKa'b ibn Malik's account of staying behind at TabukHilal ibn Umayya al-Waqifi

Sources

  1. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/162, 178
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The fifty-night boycott of the three

After his return the Prophet forbade the Muslims to speak to Ka'b, Murara and Hilal; people shunned them and their world changed for fifty nights. Two of them kept to their houses, while Ka'b went out to prayer and the markets and no one spoke to him.