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Ukasha ibn Mihsan al-Asadi

عكاشة بن محصن الأسدي

c. 632 CE · c. 11 AH

An Asadi, ally of Banu Abd Shams; Khalid ibn al-Walid (may God be pleased with him) sent him forward to Buzakha with Thabit ibn Aqram (may God be pleased with him) al-Balawi, the Ansar's ally, where Hibal ibn Khuwaylid met and killed them — and Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid and his brother Salama then went out, met Ukasha and Thabit and killed them, Tulayha uttering his famous verse on Ibn Aqram and 'Ukasha al-Ghanmi'.

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At a glance

Roles
Companion
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Arabia
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Life in time

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Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib · Abdullah ibn Abbas · Abdullah ibn Mas'ud · Abdullah ibn Salam · Abu Bakr al-Siddiq

Overview

Ukasha ibn Mihsan al-Asadi, an ally of the Banu Abd Shams among the Companions, who was killed at Buzakha in the caliphate of Abu Bakr 1.

Buzakha

Khalid ibn al-Walid sent him ahead to Buzakha, together with Thabit ibn Aqram al-Balawi, an ally of the Ansar. Hubal ibn Khuwaylid met them and killed them both. Then Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid came out, with his brother Salama, and they met Ukasha and Thabit and killed them. Tulayha composed his well-known verse about them 1.

Ukasha took part in the battle of Buzakha. His year of death is derived from the same report and is approximate, around 11 AH.

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Participated in
The Battle of Buzakha

People and things also explored

The Ridda Wars· Khalid ibn al-Walid· Thabit ibn Aqram· Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid· Uyayna ibn Hisn al-Fazari· The Battle of Buzakha

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition), p.133
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The Ridda Wars

In al-Baladhuri: when Abu Bakr succeeded, groups of the Arabs apostatized and withheld the alms, some saying 'we keep the prayer but will not pay the zakat', whereupon Abu Bakr said 'if they withheld from me a hobbling-cord — some say a she-goat kid — I would fight them', the 'iqal being a year's alms; Abdullah ibn Masud said the Muslims had stood after the Prophet at a station where they nearly perished had God not graced them with Abu Bakr: they had all agreed not to fight over a young she-camel or a weaned camel 'and to eat the Arab villages' yield and worship God until certainty came to us', but God resolved him to fight, and he accepted from them only the humiliating condition or the annihilating war — the first that they confess their slain are in the Fire and return what they took of Muslim property, the second that they leave their homes; in Tariq ibn Shihab's report he offered the Buzakha delegation the choice of the annihilating war or the humiliating peace: surrender of armour and mounts, return of what was taken, blood-money for the slain Muslims, their own slain in the Fire; Aisha said 'when the Prophet died there befell my father what would have crushed the firm mountains — hypocrisy reared its head in Medina and the Arabs apostatized'; Abu Bakr went out to al-Qassa directing the columns against the apostates, was attacked by Kharija ibn Hisn and Manzur ibn Zabban the Fazaris who were routed with Talha ibn Ubaydillah pursuing them to lower Thaniyyat Awsaja, then appointed Khalid ibn al-Walid over the army and Thabit ibn Qays over the Ansar, beginning with Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid at Buzakha, followed by the affairs of Yamama, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Hadramawt, Mecca, Tihama and Iraq.