Umm Qirfa Fatima[1] was a leader of the Banu Fazara Arab tribe from Wadi al-Qura.[citation needed]
Ancient genealogies described Umm Qirfa as a member of the Banu Fazara.[2] She married into the Banu Badr.[2] According to Ibn Ishaq and al-Tabari, Umm Qirfa was wealthy.[2]
She was described as being an old woman with high social status and wife of Malik ibn Hudhayfa ibn Badr al-Fazari.[3][2]
After her thirty horsemen were defeated by Zayd ibn Haritha, he had Umm Qirfa,[4] or her children,[5] slaughtered "by putting a rope into her two legs and to two camels and driving them until they rent her in two...".[6][7][4]
Allah’s Messenger sent Zayd to Wadi Qura, where he encountered the Banu Fazarah. Some of his Companions were killed, and Zayd was carried away wounded. Ward was slain by the Banu Badr. When Zayd returned, he vowed that no washing should touch his head until he had raided the Fazarah. After he recovered, Muhammad sent him with an army against the Fazarah settlement. He met them in Qura and inflicted casualties on them and took Umm Qirfah prisoner. He also took Abdallah bin Mas’adah prisoner. Ziyad bin Harithah ordered Qays to kill Umm Qirfah, and he killed her cruelly. He tied each of her legs with a rope and tied the ropes to two camels, and they split her in two.
— Al-Tabari, Michael Fishbein - The History of al-Tabari, 8 (The Victory of Islam), SUNYP, pp. 95-97, 1997
References edit
- ^ Smith, Margaret (30 July 2001). Muslim Women Mystics: The Life and Work of Rabi'a and Other Women Mystics in Islam. Oneworld Publications. p. 151. ISBN 9781851682508.
- ^ a b c d De Premare 1994, p. 23.
- ^ Ibn 'Abd Rabbih (2012). The Unique Necklace, Volume 3. trans. Issa J. Boullata. UWA Publishing. p. 6. ISBN 9781859642405.
- ^ a b Ibn Isḥāq, Muḥammad; Guillaume, Alfred (5 August 1978). The life of Muhammad: translation of Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah. Oxford University Press. p. 664-665. OCLC 29863176.
- ^ Guillaume, Alfred (February 1956). "A Note on the Sīra of Ibn Isḥāq". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 18 (1): 4. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00122165. ISSN 0041-977X. S2CID 171938473.
- ^ The History of Al-Tabari: the Victory of Islam. Translated by Michael Fishbein. SUNYP. 1997. pp. 95–97.
- ^ Al-Jamal, Khalkl Abd al-Karim Manshurat. Al-Nass Al-Muasas wa Mujtamauhu. p. 174.
Bibliography edit
- De Premare, A.-L. (1994). "Umm Qirfa et Salmâ, et le mythe des peuples anéantis". Journal asiatique. 282 (1): 19–35. doi:10.2143/JA.282.1.2006115. ISSN 1783-1504.