Abu Lubaba ibn Abd al-Mundhir ( ar, أبو لبابة بن عبد المنذر, Abū Lubāba ibn ʿAbd al-Mundhir) was a leading member of the
Banu Aws
The Banū Aws ( ar, بنو أوس , "Sons of Aws") or simply Aws ( ar, أوس, also romanised as Aus) was one of the main Arab tribes of Medina. The other was Khazraj, and the two, constituted the Ansar ("helpers f Muhammad) after the Hijr ...
, an Arabic tribe in
Yathrib, today known as Medina.
Biography
At some point after
Muhammad
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's
arrival at Medina in 622, Abu Lubaba converted to
Islam.
He appears in 627 during the
siege of the Banu Qurayza, a Jewish tribe in conflict with Muhammad. The Qurayza had a long-standing alliance with the Aws and during the siege asked to confer with Abu Lubaba. According to
Ibn Ishaq, Abu Lubaba felt pity for the women and children of the tribe who were crying and when asked whether the Qurayza should surrender to Muhammad, advised them to do so.
Ibn Ishaq's account, going back to Abu Lubaba's own statements, related that he regretted his actions, stating: "My feet had not moved away from the spot before I knew I had been false to
God
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and His Apostle". He then went to the
mosque
A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...
in
Medina
Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the second-holiest city in Islam, and the capital of the ...
, tied himself to a pillar and declared: "I will not leave this place until God forgives me for what I have done". He also added that he would never enter the locality of Banu Qurayza in recompense for the deadly mistake he made.
[Al-Mubarakpuri, Safiur-Rahman, ''The Sealed Nectar''. Riyadh: Darussalam, 2002.] When Muhammad was informed of this incident, he said: "''I would have begged God to forgive him if he had asked me but since he tied himself out of his own free will, then it is God Who would turn to him in forgiveness''".
Abu Lubaba stayed tied for six nights.
One early morning, Muhammad declared that God had forgiven him after reportedly receiving a
revelation
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Background
Inspiration – such as that bestowed by God on the ...
.
[Guillaume, p. 461-463; Peters, p. 222-223; Stillman, p. 137-140.]
Theologist
Ibn al-Dschauzi (died 1200) statet ten more people tied themselves to pillars.
Moshe Gil
Moshe Gil ( he, משה גיל; February 8, 1921 – January 23, 2014) was an Israeli historian.
Academic career
Moshe Gil specialized in the historical interaction between Islam and the Jews, including the history of Palestine under the Islami ...
(1987). S. 68; Rudi Paret: Der Koran. ''Kommentar und Konkordanz''. Kohlhammer Verlag
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History
Kohlhammer Verlag was founded in Stuttgart on 30 April 1866 by . Kohlhammer had taken over the businesses of his late father-in-l ...
. Stuttgart 1980. S. 212.
Notes
Literature
*Guillaume, Alfred, ''The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah''. Oxford University Press, 1955.
*Peters, Francis E., ''Muhammad and the Origins of Islam''. State University of New York Press, 1994. .
*Al-Mubarakpuri, Safiur-Rahman, ''The Sealed Nectar''. Riyadh: Darussalam, 2002.
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