Salām bin Abī 'l-Huqayq or Abu Rafi () was a
Jewish poet of early 7th century
Arabia who financed and assisted the Pagan tribes who were fighting
Muhammad and his followers, the muslims. He was killed in the
Expedition of 'Abdullah ibn 'Atik.
He composed satirical verse (hija') about
Muhammad and other early
Muslim
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leaders. When men of the
Banu Aus assassinated
Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, some
Khazraj
The Banu Khazraj ( ar, بنو خزرج) is a large Arab tribe based in Medina. They were also in Medina during Muhammad's era.
The Banu Khazraj are a South Arabian tribe that were pressured out of South Arabia in the Karib'il Watar 7th century ...
tribesman including
Abdullah ibn Unays Abdullah ibn Unais was a companion (Sahaba) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He participated in several military campaigns ordered by Muhammad. The first was to kill Khaled bin Sufyan Al-Hathali who belonged to the Banu Lahyan tribe at the time of M ...
went to Muhammad and received his permission to kill Sallam.
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari describes the assassination thus:
:''When they got to Khaybar they went to Sallam’s house by night, having locked every door in the settlement on the inhabitants. Now he was in an upper chamber of his to which a ladder led up. They mounted this until they came to the door and asked to be allowed to come in. His wife came out and asked who they were and they told her that they were Arabs in search of supplies. She told them that their man was here and that they could come in. When we entered we bolted the door of the room on her and ourselves fearing lest something should come between us and him. His wife shrieked and warned him of us, so we ran at him with our swords as he was on his bed . . . . When we had smitten him with our swords Abdullah bin Unays bore down with his sword into his belly until it went right through him.''
Sallam was the brother of
al-Rabi ibn Abu al-Huqayq and the uncle of the latter's sons, who included
Kenana ibn al-Rabi
Kenana ibn al-Rabi' ( ar, كِنَانَة ٱبْن ٱلرَّبِيع) also known as Kenana ibn al-Rabi'a and Kenana ibn al-Rabi ibn Abu al-Huqayq, was a Jewish Arab tribal leader of seventh-century Arabia and an opponent of Muhammad. He was a son ...
.
Sunni hadith
Abu Rafi's assassination is mentioned in many Sunni
Hadith:
Abu Rafi's assassination is mentioned in: , , and many more.
Resources
al-Tabari, The History of Al-Tabari: Volume 8, Michael Fishbein, tr. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997), 482–483.
See also
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List of expeditions of Muhammad
Notes
Assassinated Jews
Banu Nadir
Medieval Jewish poets
7th-century Arabian Jews
624 deaths
Opponents of Muhammad
Year of birth unknown
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