Uqbah ibn Abu Mu'ayt
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Uqba ibn Abu Mu'ayt (Arabic: عقبة بن أبو مؤيط) was a member of the Quraish tribe.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Family
He had two children, both becoming Muslims: Walid ibn Uqba [1] and Umm Kulthum binte Uqba.
[edit] Muhammad's era
According to some Muslim sources, Uqba tried to assassinate Muhammad but was stopped by Abu Bakr[2].
After the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, his daughter Umm Kulthum binte Uqba sought asylum with the Muslims. She had learned of a claim by Muhammad that God had told him female runaways did not have to be returned to the Quraish persuant to the Treaty [3].
The treaty pertained solely to men, and Sura 60:10 had proclaimed that woman were to be treated in other ways [4]
Abd-Allah ibn Mas'ud is said to have worked for Uqbah[citation needed].
[edit] Contradictory sources
[edit] Version 1
Uqbah ibn Mu'ayt (sic) became Muslim, but on behalf of his friend Ubay ibn Khalaf, he spited on Muhammad's face, and then both died in the Battle of Badr (624). Verse 25:27 is regarding those two [5]
[edit] Version 2
Uqba is described as having constantly ridiculed and tormented Muhammad, and on one occasion spitting in the latter's face[6]. When the Muslims captured Mecca Muhammad ordered Uqba executed. Ibn Ishaq relates: "When the apostle ordered him to be killed Uqba said, ‘But who will look after my children, O Muhammad?’ ‘Hell,’ he said." [7]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.answering-ansar.org/answers/mutah/en/chap4.php
- ^ http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Articles/companion/02_abu_bakr.htm
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.geocities.com/noorullahwebsite/shamoun-false.html
- ^ http://alinaam.org.za/alinaam/26quraan.htm
- ^ Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah (The Life of Muhammad), A. Guillaume, tr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 164.
- ^ Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah (The Life of Muhammad), A. Guillaume, tr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 308.
