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 "id": "person/malik-ibn-murra-al-rahawi",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "malik-ibn-murra-al-rahawi",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مالك بن مرة الرهاوي",
  "en": "Malik ibn Murra al-Rahawi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "رسول ملوك حمير إلى النبي بإسلامهم ومفارقتهم الشرك، بعثه زرعة ذو يزن فلقي النبي بالمدينة منقلبه من تبوك؛ وذكره النبي في كتابه إلى حمير بين رسله الذين أميرهم معاذ بن جبل، وأنه بلّغ الخبر وحفظ الغيب وحدّثه أن زرعة أسلم من أول حمير.",
  "en": "The envoy of Himyar's kings to the Prophet with news of their Islam, sent by Zur'a Dhu Yazan, who met the Prophet at Medina on his return from Tabuk; the Prophet's letter names him among the envoys under Mu'adh ibn Jabal, says he delivered the message faithfully, and reports his account that Zur'a was the first of Himyar to convert."
 },
 "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 مرة الرهاوي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "official",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "رسول ملوك حمير ثم من رسل النبي إليهم (ابن هشام ص235-237).",
    "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 pp. 235-237",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-9b"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa",
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 235-237"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مالك بن مرة الرهاوي رسول ملوك حمير إلى النبي. جاء بخبر إسلامهم ومفارقتهم الشرك، وقد بعثه زرعة ذو يزن. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235-237}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرسالة",
     "markdown": "لقي النبي في المدينة عند عودته من تبوك. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235-237} انظر [[event/letter-of-himyar-kings|كتاب ملوك حمير]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "كتاب النبي إلى حمير",
     "markdown": "ذكره النبي في كتابه إلى حمير بين رسله الذين أميرهم معاذ بن جبل. وجاء في الكتاب أنه بلّغ الخبر وحفظ الغيب، وأنه حدّث بأن زرعة أسلم من أول حمير. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235-237} انظر [[event/mission-of-muadh-to-yemen|بعثة معاذ إلى اليمن]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/malik-ibn-murra-al-rahawi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Malik ibn Murra al-Rahawi, envoy of the kings of Himyar to the Prophet. He brought news of their Islam and of their abandoning of polytheism, and Zar'a Dhu Yazan had sent him. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235-237}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The message",
     "markdown": "He met the Prophet in Medina as he returned from Tabuk. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235-237} See [[event/letter-of-himyar-kings|the letter of the kings of Himyar]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Prophet's letter to Himyar",
     "markdown": "The Prophet mentioned him in his letter to Himyar among his envoys, whose commander was Mu'adh ibn Jabal. The letter says that he conveyed the news and kept the unseen, and that he reported that Zar'a had become Muslim first among the Himyar. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235-237} See [[event/mission-of-muadh-to-yemen|the mission of Mu'adh to Yemen]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/malik-ibn-murra-al-rahawi",
    "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 مرہ رہاوی حمیر کے بادشاہوں کے قاصد تھے جو نبی کے پاس آئے۔ وہ ان کے اسلام لانے اور شرک چھوڑنے کی خبر لائے، اور انہیں زرعہ ذو یزن نے بھیجا تھا۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235-237}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "قاصد کا پیغام",
     "markdown": "وہ مدینہ میں تبوک سے نبی کی واپسی کے وقت آپ سے ملے۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235-237} دیکھیے [[event/letter-of-himyar-kings|حمیر کے بادشاہوں کا خط]]۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حمیر کے نام نبی کا خط",
     "markdown": "نبی نے حمیر کے نام اپنے خط میں انہیں ان قاصدوں میں شمار کیا جن کا امیر معاذ بن جبل کو بنایا گیا تھا۔ اس خط میں یہ بھی ہے کہ انہوں نے خبر پہنچائی اور غیب کو محفوظ رکھا، اور یہ بیان ہوا کہ زرعہ حمیر میں سب سے پہلے اسلام لائے۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235-237} دیکھیے [[event/mission-of-muadh-to-yemen|یمن کی طرف معاذ کی بعثت]]۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/malik-ibn-murra-al-rahawi",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-15",
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   "type": "participated_in",
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  "person/muadh-ibn-jabal",
  "event/letter-of-himyar-kings",
  "person/zura-dhu-yazan",
  "person/muhammad",
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  "work/letter-to-the-kings-of-himyar",
  "person/al-harith-ibn-abd-kulal"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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