Hubar ibn al-Aswad

Hubar ibn al-Aswad ibn al-Muttalib ibn Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza ibn Qusayy al-Qurashi al-Asadi; his mother Fakhta bint Amir ibn Qurza al-Qushayriyya; his brothers by his mother Hizn and Hubayra, sons of Abu Wahb al-Makhzumi ¹.

Ibn Hajar mentions that the cause of the order to burn him was what Ibn Ishaq related in the Sira — that Hubar prodded Zaynab the Prophet's daughter when her husband Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi' sent her to Medina, so she miscarried; "the story of it is famous in the Sira" ¹.

Ibn Ishaq relates from Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) that the Prophet sent a detachment he was among, then said: "if you overcome Hubar ibn al-Aswad (may God be pleased with him) and Nafi' ibn Qays, burn them with fire"; the next day he told them: "I had ordered you to burn these two men... then I saw it is not for anyone to punish with fire but God" ¹. Ibn Hajar criticises this account: in its chain is Abu Ishaq al-Dusi who is unknown, and the route of al-Layth in Bukhari, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi and al-Nasa'i names neither Hubar nor his companion ¹.

Ibn Hajar answers those who said he emigrated to Medina — he only became Muslim at al-Ji'rrana after the conquest of Mecca. Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar said that when he became Muslim and came to Medina they kept abusing him; he mentioned it to the Prophet, who said: "curse whoever curses you" — and they left off ¹. Al-Waqidi narrated how he embraced Islam by the route of Jubayr ibn Mut'im from his father from his grandfather, at the Prophet's departure from al-Ji'rrana ¹.

He related from Umar, on catching up with the hajj, that he ordered him to make tawaf of the House and between al-Safa and al-Marwa ². Ibn Hajar mentions verse of his courting Tawiyya in the Jahiliyya, and his son Ali ibn Hubar ².