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مالك بن العجلان

مالك بن العجلان

Medina

Malik ibn al-Ajlan al-Khazraji: when his sister confessed she must enter al-Fityawn's chamber before her bridegroom's, he killed the Jewish tyrant and fled to Syria — the act that set Abu Jubayla's purge in motion and ended Jewish supremacy at Yathrib 1.

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Pre-Islamic Arabia
Region
Arabia
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Medina

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Overview

Malik ibn al-Ajlan al-Salimi al-Khazraji, of the Khazraj, who lived in Yathrib before Islam. 2

The killing of al-Futayyun

Ibn al-Athir relates that when his sister was given in marriage, she told him that she would go in to al-Futayyun the Jew before her husband. Malik went in to him and killed him, and then fled to Syria. 2

His legacy

Abu Jubayla al-Khazraji sought refuge with him, and swore that he would not touch perfume until he had humbled the Jews of Yathrib. Ibn al-Athir counts the killing of al-Futayyun as the first victory of the Ansar over Medina. 2

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Member of
al-Khazraj
Lived in
Medina
Participated in
غلبة الأنصار على المدينة وقتل الفطيون

People and things also explored

The day of Bu'ath· Banu al-Harith ibn al-Khazraj· Banu al-Najjar· Banu Bayada· Banu Sa'ida· Banu Zurayq· أبو جبيلة· غلبة الأنصار على المدينة وقتل الفطيون

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 487-488
  2. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p.487-488
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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.