Rabīʿah ibn al-Ḥārith ()Other transliterations include "Rabah ibn al-Harith" (c.566-c.640) was a first cousin and companion of the Islamic prophet

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Family

He was a son of Al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib of the Hashim clan of the

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.Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. ''Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk''. Translated by Landau-Tasseron, E. (1998). ''Volume 39: Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors''. Albany: State University of New York Press. He married his cousin Umm al-Hakam bint al-Zubayr and they had nine children.Muhammad ibn Saad. ''Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir''. Translated by Bewley, A. (1995). ''The Women of Madina''. London: Ta-Ha Publishers. #Muhammad. #Abd Allah. #Abbas, He had a son named Abd al-Rahman buried in Ahmed Pur Sial, Jhang. #Abd Allah. #Al-Harith. #Abd Shams. #Abd al-Muttalib, who narrated hadith from Muhammad and settled in Syria. #Umayya. #Another son, variously named Adam, Tammam or Iyas, the victim of the bloodwit case. #Arwa "the Elder", from whom Rabi'ah took his '' kunya'' Abu Arwa.

Conversion to Islam

It is said that Rabi'ah did not fight at the

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in 624 because he was in Syria at the time. In 627, at the time of the Battle of the Trench, he converted to

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and emigrated to

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Bloodwit case

Rabi'ah's son Adam was a small child living with a foster-mother from the Bakr tribe. The Bakr were at war with the Hudhayl. Adam crept out in front of the tents and was caught in the cross-fire of the battle. A rock thrown by a Hudhayl man hit and crushed his head, which killed him. Rabi'ah intended to demand blood-money or a counter-killing from the Hudhayl for the death of his son. Before this could happen, Muhammad

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Mecca. On that day Muhammad cancelled all bloodwit debts and he specifically named Rabi'ah's case as the first to be cancelled. However, Ibn Ishaq asserts that the cancellation was declared two years later, at the Farewell Pilgrimage of 632.

All blood shed in the pagan period is to be left unavenged. The first claim on blood I abolish is that of Ibn Rabi'ah ibn al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib. It is the first blood shed in the pagan period which I deal with.

Hence Muhammad prevented Rabi'ah from claiming revenge from the killer.

Later life

Rabī'ah and his brother Abū Sufyān were among the ten people who did not flee in the Battle of Hunayn.Muhammad ibn Ishaq. ''Sirat Rasul Allah''. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). ''The Life of Muhammad''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. He is involved in the Hadith of the ten promised paradise. Rabi'ah died after 636 but before 644.

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