{
 "id": "person/urwa-ibn-masud",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "urwa-ibn-masud",
 "label": {
  "en": "Urwa ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi",
  "ar": "عروة بن مسعود الثقفي"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Chieftain of Thaqif in al-Ta'if and respected Meccan diplomat; represented Quraysh during negotiations at al-Hudaybiyya and famously reported to Quraysh the unparalleled devotion of the Companions to Muhammad; he embraced Islam in 9 AH and was martyred by his own people while calling them to prayer from his rooftop.",
  "ar": "سيد ثقيف بالطائف وأحد عظيمي القريتين في الجاهلية؛ فاوض النبي بالحديبية نيابة عن قريش فرأى من إجلال الصحابة له ما بهره فقال لقريش: «أي قوم، والله لقد وفدت على كسرى وقيصر والنجاشي فما رأيت ملكاً يعظمه أصحابه ما يعظم أصحاب محمد محمداً»؛ أسلم سنة 9هـ ورجع يدعو ثقيفاً فرموه بالنبل وهو يؤذن فاستشهد."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers",
  "peace-making-and-coexistence"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "عروة بن مسعود بن معتب الثقفي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion",
   "notable"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "interlocutor",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0628"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0628"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "مفاوض قريش في صلح الحديبية (الرحيق ص340).",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
     "source/sahih-al-bukhari"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "note": "صحابي وسيد ثقيف استشهد داعياً للإسلام."
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/sahih-al-bukhari",
   "source/ibn-hisham-sira",
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 340, 421"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "في سيرة ابن هشام",
     "markdown": "لحق عروة بن مسعود النبي في الطريق قبل أن يصل المدينة فأسلم، وسأله أن يرجع إلى قومه بالإسلام، فقال النبي إنهم قاتلوه، فقال: أنا أحب إليهم من أبكارهم. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/182} ولما دعاهم إلى الإسلام من علّيّة له رموه بالنبل فقتلوه؛ ونسب قومه قاتله إلى رجلين من بني مالك والأحلاف، ولم يرجّح ابن إسحاق. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/182} انظر [[event/delegation-of-thaqif|وفد ثقيف]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/urwa-ibn-masud",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "In Ibn Hisham's Sira",
     "markdown": "Urwa ibn Masud caught up with the Prophet on the road before he reached Medina, and he became Muslim. He asked the Prophet to let him go back to his people with Islam. The Prophet said that they would fight him. He said, “I am dearer to them than their own virgin daughters.” {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/182} When he called them to Islam from a raised room of his house, they shot him with arrows and killed him. His people attributed his killer to two men from the Banu Malik and the Ahlaf, and Ibn Ishaq did not prefer either account. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/182} See [[event/delegation-of-thaqif|the delegation of Thaqif]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/urwa-ibn-masud",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابن ہشام کی سیرت میں",
     "markdown": "عروہ بن مسعود مدینہ پہنچنے سے پہلے راستے میں نبی سے ملے اور اسلام لے آئے۔ انہوں نے درخواست کی کہ انہیں اپنی قوم کی طرف اسلام کی دعوت کے لیے واپس جانے دیا جائے۔ نبی نے فرمایا کہ وہ انہیں قتل کر دیں گے، تو انہوں نے کہا: میں ان کے لیے ان کے کنواری بیٹوں سے بھی زیادہ محبوب ہوں۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/182} جب انہوں نے اپنی بالائی منزل سے انہیں اسلام کی دعوت دی تو انہوں نے ان پر تیر برسائے اور انہیں قتل کر دیا۔ ان کی قوم نے ان کے قاتل کو بنو مالک اور احلاف کے دو آدمیوں کی طرف منسوب کیا، اور ابن اسحاق نے اس بات کو ترجیح نہیں دی۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/182} دیکھیے [[event/delegation-of-thaqif|ثقیف کا وفد]]۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/urwa-ibn-masud",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/abu-mulayh-ibn-urwa",
   "type": "parent_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/delegation-of-thaqif",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "أسلم قبل وفد ثقيف ودعا قومه إلى الإسلام فقُتل",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "place/taif",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/treaty-of-hudaybiyya",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "مفاوض قريش",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/sahih-al-bukhari"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "group/thaqif",
  "person/abd-yalil-ibn-amr",
  "event/delegation-of-thaqif",
  "person/uthman-ibn-abi-al-as",
  "event/demolition-of-al-lat",
  "event/siege-of-taif",
  "person/al-mughira-ibn-shuba",
  "person/muhammad"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}