- Utba ibn Rabi'ah
During the era of
Muhammad , there were several persons who considered themselves as enemies of Islam. Utba ibn Rabi'ah was one of the prominentLeaders of Quraish .Utba's father was
Rabi'ah ibn Abd Shams . Utba's daughter,Hind bint Utbah , marriedAbu Sufyan ibn Harb , another of the Leaders of the Quraish and Muhammad's arch-enemy. Utba had two sons,Abu Hudhayfah ibn Utbah andWalid ibn Uqba , and a brother.Utba was killed in the
battle of Badr , as narrated in the hadith collection ofSunan Abi Da'ud . In it,Ali is quoted saying::"(At thebattle of Badr ) Utbah ibn Rabi'ah came forward followed byhis son andhis brother and cried out: Who will be engaged in single combat? Some young men of the Helpers responded to his call. He asked: Who are you? They told him. He said: We do not want you; we, in fact, want only our cousins. Muhammad said, "Get upHamzah . Get upAli . Get upUbaydah ibn al-Harith . Hamzah went forward to Utbah, I went forward toShaybah ; and after two blows had been exchanged between Ubaydah andal-Walid , they wounded one another severely; so we turned against al-Walid and killed him, and we carried Ubaydah away."[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/abudawud/014.sat.html abudawud Book 14, Number 2659]
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