Mujja'a ibn Murara al-Yamami

Mujja'a ibn Murara al-Yamami of the Banu Hanifa. Al-Baladhuri says that the Prophet granted him land and wrote him a letter of grant for al-Ghawra, Gharaba and al-Habl. Then Abu Bakr granted him al-Khadrama, and Uthman granted him another estate. He took part in the battle of Yamama. ¹

Al-Baladhuri relates that he told Khalid ibn al-Walid that most of the people of Yamama had not come out to fight him, and he made peace on their behalf in exchange for half the captives and half the silver and gold, the armour and the horses. He then dressed the elders, children and women who remained in the fortresses in weapons, and set them on the walls, so that Khalid saw them as fighting men. ¹

Then Mujja'a returned, and said they had refused the peace until they had satisfied him with a quarter of the captives and half the wealth. When Khalid entered Yamama and saw those who remained there, he said: "You deceived me, Mujja'." ¹

Al-Harith ibn Murra al-Hanafi, from Hisham ibn Isma'il, is among those who related the report. ¹