Yaʾmar ibn Awf (al-Shaddakh)

Yamar ibn Awf, of Banu Bakr, was the arbiter to whom Qusayy, Khuza'a and Banu Bakr turned after their fierce fighting. He ruled that Qusayy had the better right to the Ka'ba and to the affairs of Mecca over Khuza'a. From that day he was named al-Shaddakh, "the Crusher" ^{1 2}.

Yamar ruled that Qusayy had the better right to the Ka'ba and to the affairs of Mecca. He ruled that every blood that Qusayy had shed among them was void, which he crushed under his feet. Whatever Khuza'a and Banu Bakr had suffered carried blood-money. Qusayy was to be left free to the Ka'ba. The name al-Shaddakh comes from his crushing of the bloods ^{1 2}. See Qusayy's seizure of Mecca.