Musaylima (Arabic: مُسَيْلِمَةُ), otherwise known as Musaylima ibn Ḥabīb (Arabic: مسيلمه ابن حبيب) d.632, was a claimant of prophethood from the Banu Hanifa...
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Battle of al-Yamama (category Battles of Khalid ibn Walid)
the overwhelmingly more numerous foe. Khalid ibn al-Walid was chosen to command the forces opposing Musaylima after he dealt with other smaller apostates...
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Shurahbil ibn Hasana and Khalid's cousin Ikrima with an army to reinforce the Muslim governor in the Yamama, Musaylima's tribal kinsman Thumama ibn Uthal...
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Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid and Musaylima ibn Habib, along with a false prophetess, Sajah bint Al Harith, had fueled the flames of apostasy. Musaylima had long...
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received Harran's surrender and dispatched Safwan ibn Mu'attal al-Sulami and his own kinsman Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri to seize Samosata, which also ended...
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decades later, on 135 AH/752-753 AD, the governor of Africa, ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib had prepared as well as possible to conquer both Sicily and Sardinia....
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