Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

He was present at the Pledge of ʿAqabah. Some have counted him among the six men who first met the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (1). He fought at Badr and was martyred there. Their fourth brother is:

75 – Rifāʿah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Rifāʿah al-Anṣārī *
A participant in Badr.
He is mentioned only by Ibn Isḥāq, while al-Wāqidī said, “That is not firmly established according to us.”
ʿAwf left descendants.
Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim said: I heard Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn say about the killing of Abū Jahl, “ʿAfrāʾ’s two sons dealt him the fatal blow, and Ibn Masʿūd finished him off.” (2)
In the narration of Ṣāliḥ ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, from his father, from his grandfather, the two who asked about him and killed Abū Jahl were Muʿādh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Jamūḥ and Muʿādh ibn ʿAfrāʾ (3), and this is the sounder version.

(1) Ibn Saad, vol. 3, pp. 492–493. (*) Al-Ibar, vol. 1, p. 41. (2) Reported by Ibn Saad, vol. 3, p. 493, through Yazid ibn Harun—from Jarir ibn Hazim. The phrase darabahu fa-aqaʿsahu means “he struck him and killed him on the spot”; al-iqʿas refers to striking or shooting something so that it dies instantly. (3) Reported by al-Bukhari, vol. 6, pp. 175–176, Book of al-Khums, chapter “On those who did not set aside the khums from personal spoils,” via Musaddad, from Yusuf ibn al-Majishun, with this identical chain of transmission.
شَهِدَ العَقَبَةَ. وَبَعْضُهُمْ عَدَّهُ أَحَدَ السِّتَّةِ النَّفَرِ الَّذِيْن لَقُوا رَسُوْلَ اللهِ ﷺ أَوَّلاً (١) . شَهِدَ بَدْراً، وَاسْتُشْهِدَ. وَأَخُوْهُمُ الرَّابِعُ: ٧٥ - رِفَاعَةُ بنُ الحَارِثِ بنِ رِفَاعَةَ الأَنْصَارِيُّ * بَدْرِيٌّ. تَفَرَّدَ بِذِكْرِهِ: ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ. فَقَالَ الوَاقِدِيُّ: لَيْسَ ذَلِكَ عِنْدَنَا بِثَبْتٍ. وَلِعَوْفٍ عَقِبٌ. قَالَ جَرِيْرُ بنُ حَازِمٍ: سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بنَ سِيْرِيْنَ يَقُوْلُ فِي قَتْلِ أَبِي جَهْلٍ: أَقْعَصَهُ ابْنَا عَفْرَاءَ، وَذَفَّفَ عَلَيْهِ ابْنُ مَسْعُوْدٍ (٢) . وَفِي رِوَايَةِ صَالِحِ بنِ إِبْرَاهِيْمَ بنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بنِ عَوْفٍ، عَنْ أَبِيْهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ: أَنَّ اللَّذَيْنِ سَأَلاَهُ، وَقَتَلاَ أَبَا جَهْلٍ: مُعَاذُ بنُ عَمْرِو بنِ الجَمُوْحِ؛ وَمعَاذُ بنُ عَفْرَاءَ (٣) ، وَهُوَ أَصَحُّ.
(١) ابن سعد ٣ / ٤٩٢، ٤٩٣. (*) العبر: ١ / ٤١. (٢) أخرجه ابن سعد ٣ / ٤٩٣ عن يزيد بن هارون، عن جرير بن حازم، يقال: ضربه، فأقعصه: إذا قتله مكانه، والاقعاص: أن تضرب الشئ أو ترميه، فيموت مكانه. (٣) أخرجه البخاري ٦ / ١٧٥، ١٧٦ في الخمس: باب من لم يخمس الاسلاب، من طريق مسدد، عن يوسف بن الماجشون بهذا الإسناد.

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