Unayf ibn Milla al-Dubaybi

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Of the Dubayb of Judham, brother of Hassan ibn Milla. He rode with him and with Abu Zayd ibn Amr to the army of Zayd ibn Haritha, on the horse of Milla Raghal. His two companions feared his tongue, and they agreed that only Hassan should speak ¹. When a horseman of the army drove them, he uttered a word of pre-Islamic speech to urge them on to fight, and Hassan restrained him, and rode that night to Rifa'a ibn Zayd ¹ ².

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The report comes from the context of the raid on Judham in Ibn Ishaq, without a named chain. ¹

Zayd ibn Haritha's raid on Judham and the Prophet's restitution

When Dihya ibn Khalifa al-Kalbi returned from Caesar, al-Hunayd ibn Us and his son of the Dula' of Judham robbed him in the valley of Shinar; men of the Dubayb, Rifa'a ibn Zayd's clan who had converted, recovered his goods. When Dihya complained to the Prophet and asked for al-Hunayd's blood, the Prophet sent Zayd ibn Haritha with an army, which raided from al-Awlaj at al-Maqis, took property and people, killed al-Hunayd and his son and three others, and captured converts among them. A party of the Dubayb with Hassan ibn Milla rode to Zayd, who had Umm al-Kitab recited and proclaimed their quarter inviolable; they then rode to Rifa'a and three nights on to Medina, where the Prophet read his own letter to Rifa'a, asked three times what he should do about the dead, and sent Ali with his sword to Zayd, who restored everything down to a woman's cushion. Ibn Ishaq has it from men of Judham learned in it.

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Zayd ibn Haritha's raid on Judham and the Prophet's restitution