At a glance
- Roles
- Companion · Notable
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Converts and those who leavePeace-making and coexistence
Place in the story
- Interlocutor · 628 CE · 7 AH† – 628 CE · 7 AH†Historical
- Convert to IslamtowardMuhammad · 630 CE · 9 AH†Historical
- Companion · 630 CE · 9 AH†Tradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
In Ibn Hisham's Sira
Urwa ibn Masud caught up with the Prophet ﷺ on the road before he reached Medina, and he became Muslim. He asked the Prophet to let him go back to his people with Islam. The Prophet said that they would fight him. He said, “I am dearer to them than their own virgin daughters.” 1 When he called them to Islam from a raised room of his house, they shot him with arrows and killed him. His people attributed his killer to two men from the Banu Malik and the Ahlaf, and Ibn Ishaq did not prefer either account. 1 See the delegation of Thaqif.
Connections
- Parent of
- Abu Mulayh ibn Urwa al-Thaqafi
- Participated in
- The delegation of Thaqif· The Treaty of Hudaybiyya
- Born in
- Ta'if
People and things also explored
Thaqif· Abd Yalil ibn Amr· The delegation of Thaqif· Uthman ibn Abi al-As· The demolition of al-Lat· The siege of Ta'if· al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba· Muhammad
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/182
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Urwa ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/urwa-ibn-masud/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.