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Banu Salima

بنو سلمة

A clan of the Khazraj; it includes Ka'b ibn Malik, the man who disparaged Ka'b at Tabuk, and the men who reproached him after he told the Prophet ﷺ the truth. In al-Samhudi they settled between the Mosque of the Two Qiblas and al-Midhad in a quarter called 'Khurba' — ruin — which the Prophet renamed 'Sulha' on the sounder reading ('Talha' in Ibn Zabala's copy); they built the utum al-Aghlab, Khayt and Mani', and when they complained of their distance the Prophet said 'stay, for you are its tent-pegs', then Umar moved them to the foot of Sal' 1.

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Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Summary

A clan from whom Ibn Ishaq names Ka'b ibn Malik; in his account a man of them disparaged Ka'b before the Prophet at Tabuk, and men of them blamed him after his truthfulness. 2

In this batch

A man "of Banu Salama" said to the Prophet at Tabuk that Ka'b had been held back by his two striped cloaks (the event). 3 Then men of Banu Salama rose with Ka'b after the Prophet's answer, blaming him for not having made an excuse (the event). 2

Source notes and markers of doubt

  • "Banu Salama" appears with kasra on the l in the reading shown on the page image; the text does not say which Khazraj clan they belong to.

Connections

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Has member
Amr ibn al-Jamuh· Jabir ibn Abdullah ibn Ri'ab· Ka'b ibn Malik al-Ansari· Uqba ibn Amir ibn Nabi
Related to
Mosque of the Two Qiblas

People and things also explored

The Battle of Uhud· First encounter with the six Ansar at al-Aqaba· The Pledges of Aqaba· The Battle of Badr· The Battle of Hunayn· The Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)· The fifty-night boycott of the three· The change of the qibla

Sources

  1. Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print) , p. 213-216
  2. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/177-178
  3. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/177
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A battle near Mount Uhud in which the Quraysh gained the upper hand and Hamza, the Prophet's uncle, was killed.