Banu Waqif

بنو واقف

A clan of the Aws to which Ibn Ishaq ascribes Hilal ibn Umayya al-Waqifi, one of the three left behind; in al-Samhudi they settled with Banu al-Salm (sons of Imru' al-Qays ibn Malik al-Awsi) by the Fadikh mosque, and built the utm 'al-Zaydan' whose site lay mostly south of that mosque 1.

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Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Summary

A clan to which Ibn Ishaq traces Hilal ibn Umayya. 2

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Hilal ibn Umayya al-Waqifi

People and things also explored

The fifty-night boycott of the three· The order that the three keep apart from their wives· The acceptance of the repentance of the three· The three who were left behind after Tabuk· Ka'b ibn Malik's account of staying behind at Tabuk· Hilal ibn Umayya al-Waqifi

Sources

  1. Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print) , p. 207-208
  2. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/162, 178
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The fifty-night boycott of the three

After his return the Prophet forbade the Muslims to speak to Ka'b, Murara and Hilal; people shunned them and their world changed for fifty nights. Two of them kept to their houses, while Ka'b went out to prayer and the markets and no one spoke to him.