al-Burak ibn Abdallah al-Tamimi

البرك بن عبد الله التميمي

A Tamimi Khariji who joined the Meccan pact with Ibn Muljim and Amr ibn Bakir to kill the three governors on the night of 17 Ramadan 40; he took Mu'awiya, striking him as he prostrated in prayer and wounding his buttock, but Mu'awiya survived 1.

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The Rashidun Caliphate
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Arabia
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Al-Burak ibn Abd Allah al-Tamimi, a Kharijite from the Banu Tamim. Al-Suyuti says he made a pact in Mecca with Ibn Muljam and Amr ibn Bakr to kill the three amirs on the night of the seventeenth of Ramadan 40 AH. 2

The strike

Al-Burak chose Mu'awiya, and struck him while he was prostrating and hit his buttock, but Mu'awiya did not die. 2

A difference in the name

The museum's data record that his name in al-Tabari is Hajjaj ibn Abd Allah al-Sarimi, and that al-Mas'udi names the third man Zadawayh, a client of the Banu al-Anbar. 3 4

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 295
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.295
  3. Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari (ed. Abu al-Fadl Ibrahim)
  4. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi
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