the killing of the Jewish tyrant al-Fiṭyūn by Mālik ibn al-ʿAjlān

When the Aws and the Khazraj settled in Yathrib, where the Jewish tribes of Qurayza, al-Nadir, Qaynuqa' and others lived, the Jews held the upper hand and authority, and built fortresses. In time al-Fityun, a Jewish man, came to rule over them. He was a wicked, dissolute man who reached out to their honour: no woman would marry without first being brought in to him, before her husband. Malik ibn al-Ajlan of the Khazraj killed him, and the Jews' dominance ended and returned to the Aws and the Khazraj, who remained united until the war of Sumayr broke out between them. ¹.