Tulayhah al-Asadī, who had likewise claimed prophethood and had been followed by groups from among the people of Najd. When Allah granted the believers victory over these men and they routed them, Ukāshah ibn Mihsan al-Asadī was killed that day, while this same Tulayhah al-Asadī subsequently embraced Islam. They thereafter went (1) to fight Musaylimah the Liar in al-Yamāmah. The believers endured tremendous hardship in the war against him, and a number of the finest Companions (2) were killed, including Zayd ibn al-Khattāb, Thābit ibn Qays ibn al-Shammās (3), Usayd ibn Hudayr, and others (4).

In sum, the account of Musaylimah the Liar—his claim to prophethood, the allegiance of Banū Hanīfah to him in al-Yamāmah, and al-Siddīq’s fighting them on that account—is widely known and established by mass transmission. It is known to the elite and the common alike, as are other events of its kind. This is not knowledge confined to specialists. Indeed, people’s knowledge of it is more firmly established than their knowledge of the Battles of the Camel and Siffīn. It has been reported that one of the speculative theologians denied the Battles of the Camel and Siffīn. Yet although such denial is false, we know of no one—ص: “that anyone”—who denied the fighting against the people of al-Yamāmah, that Musaylimah the Liar claimed prophethood, or that they fought him (5) on that account.