Английская Википедия:Al-Harith ibn Hisham

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām ibn al-Mughīra ibn ʿAbd Allāh (died 634, 636 or 639), was a companion of Muhammad, a noble of the Banu Makhzum and a participant in the Muslim conquest of Syria until his death.

Life

Al-Harith was a son of the prominent pre-Islamic Qurayshite Hisham ibn al-Mughira of the Banu Makhzum clan in Mecca.Шаблон:Sfn Al-Harith's brother was Abu Jahl, the leader of Meccan opposition to the Islamic prophet Muhammad until his death at the Battle of Badr in 624.Шаблон:Sfn Al-Harith also fought against the Muslims at Badr and again at the Battle of Uhud near Medina in 627.Шаблон:Sfn Al-Harith embraced Islam during Muhammad's conquest of Mecca in 629/30.Шаблон:Sfn Afterward, he fought in the Muslim army against the Arab polytheists at the Battle of Hunayn in 630 and was given a share of the war spoils from that engagement.Шаблон:Sfn

Al-Harith participated in the Muslim conquest of Syria,Шаблон:Sfn successively fighting in the battles of Ajnadayn in Palestine and Fahl in Transjordan, both in 634. He fought under his paternal first cousin Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of Yarmouk in 636.Шаблон:Sfn In 637 Caliph Umar gave al-Harith a stipend lower than others in the army because of his relatively late conversion to Islam. Unhappy with his pay, he permanently established himself in Syria with seventy members of his family.Шаблон:Sfn Accounts in the traditional Islamic sources about the date and cause of his death vary, with a number of sources reporting that he died in battle at Ajnadayn in 634 or at Yarmouk in 636, while others holding that he died in the plague of Amwas in 639.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In any case, by the latter date, all but two or four of his seventy family members had died in Syria, in battle or due to plague.Шаблон:Sfn

Descendants

One of al-Harith's few surviving sons, Abd al-Rahman, was brought back to Medina by Umar, one of whose wives had been al-Harith's daughter Umm Hakim, and rewarded him with an allotment of land.Шаблон:Sfn He fathered an influential family of the Makhzum in Medina, having thirteen or fourteen sons and eighteen daughters.Шаблон:Sfn The family forged marital ties with other families of the Makhzum, as well as with the Umayyads and the Zubayrids,Шаблон:Sfn both Qurayshite contenders for control of the caliphate during the First and Second Muslim Civil Wars.

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