أحيحة بن الجلاح

أحيحة بن الجلاح

Uhayha ibn al-Julah of Aws, sayyid of Banu Juhjuba and reckoned among the mightiest men of Yathrib before Islam; the Ghatafani's horse was yielded to him at the Qaynuqa market, his word loomed over the Samir war, and his order to kill Ka'b ibn Amr al-Mazini set off the Juhjuba-Mazin war in which he was routed to his fortress; and when Thaqif's Mas'ud ibn Mu'tib sought the Ansar's pact he refused — 'your brother is the one you left behind' — sending him home with a slave who built Ta'if's first fortress-tower ¹.