Abd Allah b. Azra al-Khath'ami

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'Abd Allah b. 'Azra
Murderer of Ja'far b. 'Aqil
Full Name'Abd Allah b. 'Azra al-Khath'ami
LineageKhath'am tribe
EraUmayyad Dynasty
Known forAn archer of the army of 'Umar b. Sa'd in the Battle of Karbala
ActivitiesJoining Mus'ab b. Zubayr


ʿAbd Allah b. ʿAzrah (ʿUrwa) al-Khathʿami (Arabic:عبدالله بن عَزره(عُروه) الخَثعَمی) was the murderer of Ja'far b. 'Aqil and among the archers of the army of 'Umar b. Sa'd in the Battle of Karbala. In the uprising of Mukhtar, he escaped to Basra and joined Mus'ab b. Zubayr.

Name and Lineage

'Abd Allah b. 'Azrah[1] was from Khath'am tribe[2] and his name is also mentioned in sources as 'Abd Allah b. 'Urwa,[3] 'Urwa b. 'Abd Allah,[4] and 'Azra b. 'Abd Allah.[5]

In the Battle of 'Ashura

In the Battle of Karbala, 'Abd Allah b. 'Azra was in the army of 'Umar b. Sa'd. It is narrated that he shot 12 arrows toward the army of Imam (a).[6]

On the Day of 'Ashura, he shot an arrow towards Ja'far b. 'Aqil's heart[7] and martyred him.[8] In some sources, Bishr b. Sawt is mentioned as the murderer of Ja'far b. 'Aqil.[9]

In Akhbar al-tiwal, Dinawari mentioned 'Abd Allah b. 'Azra as the murder of 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Aqil,[10]which does not agree with other historical reports.[11]

Destiny

When the Uprising of al-Mukhtar happened in 66/685-6, he escaped to Basra and joined Mus'ab b. Zubayr. His house was ruined by order of al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi.[12]

Notes

  1. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam, vol. 5, p. 447.
  2. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam, vol. 6, p. 65; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, vol. 4, p. 244.
  3. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam, vol. 6, p. 65; Dīnawarī, al-Akhbār al-ṭiwāl, p. 257; Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 3, p. 200; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, vol. 4, p. 75, 244.
  4. ↑ Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 45, p. 375; Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 477; Abu l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, Maqātil al-ṭālibīyyīn, p. 97.
  5. ↑ Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 45, p. 375.
  6. ↑ Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, vol. 4, p. 244; Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam, vol. 6, p. 65.
  7. ↑ Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 3, p. 200.
  8. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam, vol. 5, p. 447; Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 477; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, vol. 4, p. 75; Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 3, p. 200.
  9. ↑ Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 477, Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam, vol. 5, p. 469; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, vol. 4, p. 92.
  10. ↑ Dīnawarī, al-Akhbār al-ṭiwāl, p. 257.
  11. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam, vol. 5, p. 447, 469, vol. 6, p. 59; Ibn Shahrāshūb, Manāqib, vol. 4, p. 106; Ibn Nimā, Muthīr al-aḥzān, p. 67; Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 106; Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 45, p. 44; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, vol. 4, p. 74-75, 92; Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt, vol. 5, p. 477; Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 3, p. 200; Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 45, p. 33.
  12. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam, vol. 6, p. 65; Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 45, p. 375; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, vol. 4, p. 244.

References

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  • Balādhurī, Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-. Ansāb al-ashrāf. Edited by Muḥammad Bāqir Maḥmūdī. 1st edition. Beirut: Dār al-Taʿāruf, 1977.
  • Dīnawarī, Aḥmad b. Dāwūd al-. Al-Akhbār al-ṭiwāl. Edited by ʿAbd al-Munʿim ʿĀmir and Jamāl al-Dīn Shiyāl. Qom: Manshūrāt al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, 1368Sh.
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