Muhammad ibn Maslamah

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Muhammad ibn Maslamah

Muhammad ibn Maslamah, sometimes surnamed Ansari (589-666) was a Companion

Sahaba

In Islam, the abah "Companions" were the companions of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad. This form is plural; the singular is masculine ?a?abiyy, feminine ?a?abiyyah....
of Muhammad

Muhammad

Muhammad Patronymic#Arabic Abd Allah ibn Abd al Muttalib , is the founder of the Major religious groups of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as a Rasul and prophet of , the last and the greatest law-bearer in a series of prophets....
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He was among the first in Yathrib to become a Muslim

Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
and was a halif or an ally of the Aws tribe in Medina

Medina

Medina is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and serves as the capital of the Al Madinah Province. It is the second holiest city in Islam, and the burial place of the Prophet Muhammad....
indicating he was not an Arab

Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
. He became a Muslim at the hands of Musab ibn Umayr, before Usayd ibn Hudayr and Sad ibn Muadh who were influential men in the city.

In 622 when Muhammad arrived in Medina he paired off each Muhajir

Muhajir

Muhajir or Mohajir is an Arabic word meaning emigrant. The Islamic calendar Hijri year starts when Muhammad and his companions Migration to Medina Mecca for Medina in what is known as Hijra....
with one of the Ansar, joining Muhammad ibn Maslamah with Abu Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah.

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Muhammad ibn Maslamah, sometimes surnamed Ansari (589-666) was a Companion

Sahaba

In Islam, the abah "Companions" were the companions of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad. This form is plural; the singular is masculine ?a?abiyy, feminine ?a?abiyyah....
of Muhammad

Muhammad

Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
and was a halif or an ally of the Aws tribe in Medina

Medina

Arab

Muhajir

Battle of Tabouk

The Battle of Tabouk was a military expedition said to have been led by Muhammed in October, AD 630. According to Muslim biographies, Muhammed led a force of as many as 30,000 north to Tabouk in present-day northwestern Saudi Arabia, with the intention of engaging the Byzantine Empire army....
. On that occasion, he and Ali

Ali

Ali ibn Abi alib was the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, who ruled over the Rashidun empire from 656 to 661. Sunni Muslims consider Ali as the fourth and final Rashidun while Shia Islam Muslims regard Ali as the first Imamah and consider him and his descendants as the Succession to Muhammad, all of which are me...
were put in charge of an army which was left behind to protect Medina. Later in life, he would related these battles to his ten children.

In 624, Muhammad ibn Maslamah volunteered when the Prophet Muhammad called upon his followers to kill Ka'b, a chief of the Banu Nadir

Banu Nadir

The Banu Nadir were a Jewish tribe who Arabian tribes that interacted with Muhammad, at the oasis of Yathrib . They came into conflict with Muhammad and, having been expelled from the city, together with the Quraysh planned the Battle of the Trench....
, who had written poetry the Muslims found offensive. Muhammad ibn Maslama collected four others, including a foster-brother of Ka'b. By pretending to have turned against Muhammad, they enticed Ka'b out of his fortress on a moonlight night for what was supposed to be negotiations of Ka'b's sale of food to them. After Ka'b walked out of his fortress to meet Muhammad ibn Maslama and his companions, they attacked Ka'b and killed him in spite of his vigorous resistance.

Before the battle of Uhud

Battle of Uhud

The Battle of Uhud was fought on 19 March 625 at Mount Uhud, in what is now north-western Arabia. It occurred between a force from the Muslim community of Medina led by Muhammad, and a force led by Abu Sufyan ibn Harb from Mecca, the town from which many of the Muslims had previously emigrated ....
, Muhammad and the Muslim force numbering some seven hundred persons spent a night in an open camp. He put fifty men under the command of Muhammad ibn Maslamah and entrusted him with patrolling the camp at night. During the battle itself, after the disastrous rout of the Muslims by the Quraish, a small band defended Muhammad till the tide of battle turned. Muhammad ibn Maslamah was among them.

In 627, after the surrender of the Banu Qurayza

Banu Qurayza

The Banu Qurayza were a Jewish tribe who lived in Arabian tribe that interacted with Muhammad, at the oasis of Yathrib .Jewish tribes reportedly arrived in Hijaz in the wake of the Jewish-Roman wars and introduced agriculture, putting them in a culturally, economical and politically dominant position....
, Muhammad ibn Maslamah was put in charge of the captured males that were eventually killed.

During the caliphate

Caliphate

The caliphate represented the political leadership of the Muslim ummah in classical and medieval Islamic history and juristic theory. The head of state's position is based on the notion of a successor to the Prophets of Islam Muhammad's political authority....
of Umar

Umar

Umar , also known as Umar the Great or Omar the Great was a Muslim from the Banu Adi clan of the Quraysh Tribes of Arabia, and a sahaba of Muhammad....
(634 - 644), Muhammad ibn Maslamah was put in charge of a special office established to investigate complaints against officers of the state. When Amr ibn al-Aas requested reinforcements during his expedition to Egypt

Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
, Umar sent him four detachments of one thousand men each, led by Muhammad ibn Maslamah, az-Zubayr ibn aI-Awwam, Ubadah ibn as-Samit and al-Miqdad ibn al-Aswad.

Muhammad ibn Maslamah also served Umar's successor, Uthman

Uthman

?Uthman ibn ?Affan was one of the sahaba . An early convert to Islam, he played a major role in early Muslim history, most notably as the third Caliph of the Rashidun Empire and in the compilation of the Qur'an....
. When the latter was killed in 656 and civil war broke out Muhammad did not participate, deliberately broking the sword he always used and which was given to him by Muhammad. During this time, he was known as the "Knight of the Prophet" and by refusing to use the sword against Muslims he preserved this reputation.

Muhammad ibn Maslamah died in Medina, April 666 at the age of seventy seven.

His brother Mahmoud ibn Maslamah killed in Al-Khandaq battle against unbelievers.

He was involved in the expulsion of the Banu Nadir

Banu Nadir

Medina

External links

from USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts
USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts

The University of Southern California-Muslim Students Association Compendium of Muslim Texts contains the most known online hadith database , ranking highest in the Google search engine , although the collections they have are incomplete due to being one of the earliest sites on Islam on the net....
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