Dhu'l-Thudiyya
ذو الثدية
The Kharijite foretold to fall among the Mariqi — Ali would not accept 'we found nothing', sent the whole company back into the slain, and he was dragged from beneath a hundred corpses in a hollow 1.
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Overview
Dhu al-Thudiyya, a man of the Kharijites, whose story appears in al-Mas'udi's "Meadows of Gold" in the account of al-Nahrawan. 2
After al-Nahrawan
According to al-Mas'udi, the Prophet ﷺ had said that he would be killed among the renegades. Ali looked for him among the dead after al-Nahrawan, and was told that they had not found anything. He insisted that the man had been killed on that day and ordered the company to search for him. 2
They found him in a place of soft ground with about a hundred dead above him, and they brought him out dragged by his leg. 2
His real name and the details of his life are not given in the data; an additional source is needed.
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 48
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.48
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islam.museum contributors. “Dhu'l-Thudiyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/dhu-al-thudiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.