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Amr ibn al-Nu'man al-Bayadi

عمرو بن النعمان البياضي

Khazraj commander on the day of Bu'ath — though Ibn Hazm makes their chief that day al-Nu'man's father Ruhayla ibn Tha'laba al-Bayadi; he swore never to wash his head until he brought the Jews of Yathrib down to the dwellings of Qurayza and al-Nadir and killed their hostages, and when the hosts met 'Abdallah ibn Ubayy told him he would be carried off slain on four men's hands — he disobeyed, fell, and was borne in by four as foretold 1.

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عمرو بن النعمان البياضي رئيس الخزرج في يوم بعاث، وقُتل فيه. 2

حلف ألا يمس رأسه غسلاً حتى ينزل يهود يثرب منازل قريظة والنضير ويقتل رهنهم. ولما التقى الجمعان قال له عبد الله بن أُبيّ إنه سيُقتل فيحمله أربعة، فعصاه وقُتل وجيء به محمولاً على أربعة. 2

وعند ابن حزم أن رئيس الخزرج يومئذ هو والد النعمان، رُحَيلة بن ثعلبة البياضي. 2

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al-Khazraj
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The day of Bu'ath

People and things also explored

The day of Bu'ath· al-Khazraj· حرب كعب بن عمرو المازني· حرب سمير· al-Aws· Banu Abd al-Ashhal· Banu al-Harith ibn al-Khazraj· Banu al-Najjar

Sources

  1. Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print), p. 229
  2. Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print), p.229
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The day of Bu'ath

The last and greatest of the Aws–Khazraj wars before Islam, about five years before the Hijra on the soundest view; before it ran the war of Mutaymir, the war of Ka'b ibn 'Amr, the day of al-Sarara and the day of al-Dayk — al-Samhudi adds the day of Fari', the two Fijar wars, and the wars of Hudayr ibn al-Aslat and Hatib ibn Qays — until al-Khattabi reports a tradition that war stood between them a hundred and twenty years to Islam. They fought at Bu'ath, a site at the head of Qawra, after the long-bested Aws allied with Qurayza and al-Nadir — its earlier bid for a Quraysh pact at Mecca having been dissolved by a ruse Ibn Shabba ascribes to al-Walid ibn al-Mughira — and some of its clans withdrew about a year to Khaybar. When the Khazraj boasted of victory and seized the Jews' hostages, the war was joined. Both chiefs fell: Hudayr 'al-Kata'ib', father of Usayd, for the Aws, and 'Amr ibn al-Nu'man al-Bayadi for the Khazraj — 'Abdallah ibn Ubayy had warned him he would be borne off slain, and four men carried him in as foretold; the rout first fell on the Khazraj until Hudayr rallied the Aws to victory, and Sa'd ibn Mu'adh escaped under 'Amr ibn al-Jamuh's protection; in the Sahih 'A'isha says 'the day of Bu'ath was a day God sent ahead of His Messenger for their entering Islam — he came when their assembly had scattered and their chiefs been slain', a report al-Samhudi also transmits in her chapter.