{
 "id": "person/malik-ibn-ayfa",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "malik-ibn-ayfa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مالك بن أيفع الهمداني",
  "en": "Malik ibn Ayfa' al-Hamdani"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من وفد همدان الذين لقوا النبي مرجعه من تبوك مع مالك بن النمط ذي المشعار، كما سمّاهم ابن هشام عن أبي إسحاق السبيعي.",
  "en": "One of the Hamdan delegation who met the Prophet on his return from Tabuk with Malik ibn al-Namat Dhu al-Mish'ar, as Ibn Hisham names them on the authority of Abu Ishaq al-Sabi'i."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "مالك بن أيفع الهمداني"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0631~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "من وفد همدان (ابن هشام ص244).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0631~"
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 p. 244",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-9c"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 p. 244"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مالك بن أيفع الهمداني من وفد همدان الذين لقوا النبي في عودته من تبوك مع مالك بن النمط ذي المشعار. وقد سمّاهم ابن هشام عن أبي إسحاق السبيعي. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.244}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفد همدان",
     "markdown": "ينتمي إلى [[group/banu-hamdan|همدان]] ويُعدّ من [[event/delegation-of-hamdan|وفدها]]. وتسجّل البيانات إسلامه على سبيل الرواية، وتؤرخه بنحو سنة 9هـ على التقريب. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.244}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/malik-ibn-ayfa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Malik ibn Ayfa al-Hamdani, of the delegation of Hamdan that met the Prophet on his return from Tabuk, together with Malik ibn al-Namat Dhu al-Mash'ar. Ibn Hisham named them from Abu Ishaq al-Subay'i. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.244}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The delegation of Hamdan",
     "markdown": "He belongs to [[group/banu-hamdan|Hamdan]] and is counted among [[event/delegation-of-hamdan|its delegation]]. The data record his Islam on the authority of report, and date it roughly to around 9 AH. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.244}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/malik-ibn-ayfa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "مالک بن ایفع ہمدانی وفد ہمدان کے ان افراد میں سے ہیں جو تبوک سے نبی کی واپسی کے وقت مالک بن نمط ذو المشعار کے ساتھ آپ سے ملے۔ ان کے نام ابن ہشام نے ابو اسحاق سبیعی کے واسطے سے بیان کیے ہیں۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.244}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفد ہمدان",
     "markdown": "وہ [[group/banu-hamdan|ہمدان]] سے تعلق رکھتے ہیں اور اس کے [[event/delegation-of-hamdan|وفد]] میں شامل تھے۔ روایات ان کے اسلام کا ذکر کرتی ہیں، اور اس کا زمانہ تقریباً سنہ 9ھ بتایا جاتا ہے۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.244}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/malik-ibn-ayfa",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-15",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/banu-hamdan",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/delegation-of-hamdan",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "من الوفد",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/dimam-ibn-malik-al-salmani",
  "person/malik-ibn-al-namt",
  "event/delegation-of-hamdan",
  "person/umayra-ibn-malik-al-kharifi",
  "work/letter-to-hamdan",
  "group/banu-hamdan",
  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
  "event/battle-of-al-radm"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}