Rukānah ibn ʿAbd Yazīd (1) (2), the son of Hāshim (3) ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Qurashī. He is the man whom the Prophet ﷺ wrestled. Rukānah was among the strongest of all people (4), and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ throwing him to the ground is counted among the miracles, as we mentioned earlier in the Proofs of Prophethood (5).
Rukānah accepted Islam in the Year of the Conquest—though some say it was earlier than that—at Mecca, when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had wrestled him down (6). Allah knows best.
Ṣafwān ibn Umayyah (7), son of Khalaf ibn Wahb ibn Ḥudhāfah, Abū Wahb al-Qurashī, was one of the leaders of Mecca (8). As noted previously, he fled from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during the Year of the Conquest (9), then returned, embraced Islam, and his faith became sound; he was the one who
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(1) In the Ṭ̣ edition “ʿAbd Yazid” is mistakenly written as “ʿAbd al-Aziz.”
(2) Ṭabaqāt Khalīfah (vol. 9); Tarīkh Khalīfah, p. 205; Tarikh al-Bukhari al-Kabir (vol. 3, t. 1146); al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil (vol. 3, p. 519); Thiqaat Ibn Hibban, fol. 133; Mashahir ʿUlama al-Amsar (d. 187); al-Muʿjam al-Kabir (vol. 5, p. 462); Wafayat Ibn Zubayr, fol. 14; Jumharat Ibn Hazm, p. 73; al-Istiʿab, vol. 2, p. 507; Asad al-Ghabah, vol. 2, p. 236; Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa al-Lughat, vol. 1, p. 191; Tahdhib al-Kamal, vol. 9, p. 221 (critical ed.); Asmaʾ al-Rijal (al-Tibi), fol. 19; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 1, fol. 228; al-Kashif, vol. 1, p. 243; Tajrid Asmaʾ al-Sahabah, vol. 1, p. 186; Ikmal Maghlutai, vol. 2, fol. 27; al-ʿAqd al-Thamīn (vol. 4, p. 400); Nihayat al-Sul, fol. 98; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 3, p. 287; al-Isabah, vol. 1, p. 520; Khulasat al-Khuzari, p. 119.
(3) In the al-Usul edition it is misread as “Hisham.”
(4) In Ṭ̣ and B: “one of the strongest men.”
(5) In Ṭ̣ and B: “predominated.”
(6) Found only in manuscript A.
(7) Tabaqāt Ibn Saʿd, vol. 5, p. 449; Tabaqāt Khalīfah, pp. 24, 278; Tarīkh Khalīfah, pp. 75, 111; Musnad Aḥmad, vol. 3, p. 400 and vol. 6, p. 464; Tarikh al-Bukhari al-Kabir, vol. 4, p. 304; al-Maʿārif, p. 342; al-Maʿrifah wa al-Tarīkh, vol. 1, p. 309; al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil, vol. 4, p. 421; Thiqaat Ibn Hibban, vol. 3, p. 191; al-Muʿjam al-Tabarani al-Kabir, vol. 8, p. 46; Jumharat Ibn Hazm, p. 159; al-Istiʿab, vol. 2, p. 718; Tarīkh Ibn ʿAsākir, vol. 8, p. 159a; Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa al-Lughat, vol. 1, p. 249; Mukhtasar Tarīkh Dimashq, vol. 11, p. 89; Tahdhib al-Kamal, vol. 13, p. 180; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, vol. 2, p. 562; al-Kashif, vol. 2, p. 27; al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 50; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 2, fol. 93; Ikmal Maghlutai, vol. 2, fol. 193; Nihayat al-Sul, fol. 147; al-Isabah, vol. 5, p. 145; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 4, p. 424; Khulasat al-Khuzari, p. 174; Shudhurāt al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 229 (critical ed.); Tahdhib Tarīkh Dimashq, vol. 6, p. 429.
(8) In Ṭ̣: “bin,” which is a corruption; our emendation aligns with the author’s biographical sources.
(9) Gloss added in Ṭ̣ and B.