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Musaylimah

Arab religious leader
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  • riddah

    …Bakr’s strongest opponent, the prophet Musaylimah and his followers in Al-Yamāmah. It culminated in a notoriously bloody battle at ʿAqrabāʾ in eastern Najd (May 633), afterward known as the Garden of Death. The encounter cost the Muslims the lives of many anṣār (“helpers”; Medinan Companions of the Prophet) who were…

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    …Bakr’s strongest opponent, the prophet Musaylimah and his followers in Al-Yamāmah. It culminated in a notoriously bloody battle at ʿAqrabāʾ in eastern Najd (May 633), afterward known as the Garden of Death. The encounter cost the Muslims the lives of many anṣār (“helpers”; Medinan Companions of the Prophet) who were…

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