Abdullah ibn Ubayy was a Khazraj man of Yathrib whose people nearly crowned him king before the Prophet ﷺ arrived and the crown was lost. He professed Islam but kept working against the Prophet from within — the Sunni tradition remembers him as chief of the hypocrites. He died in 631 CE; the Prophet prayed over him and gave him his shirt.
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Abdullah ibn Ubayy
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Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul al-Khazraji. The sources say the Aws and Khazraj had agreed on his leadership after the war of Bu'ath and had strung the beads to crown him; when the Prophet ﷺ came his people turned to him, and he saw his kingship taken — so he professed Islam after Badr while concealing disbelief, and the Sunni tradition remembers him as the hypocrites' chief, the enemy from within. He withdrew with a third of the army on the eve of Uhud; the Ifk affair and Surat al-Munafiqun are read against him. He died early in 631 CE, and the tradition preserves that the Prophet prayed over him and gave him his shirt — an ending the sources tell without softening the man.
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