{
 "id": "person/wahshi-ibn-harb",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "wahshi-ibn-harb",
 "label": {
  "en": "Wahshi ibn Harb",
  "ar": "وحشي بن حرب"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "An Abyssinian slave famous for his javelin: promised his freedom for killing Hamza at Uhud, he later became a Muslim and, in the tradition's account, also killed the false prophet Musaylima at Yamama.",
  "ar": "عبد حبشي اشتهر بحربته: وُعد بالحرية على قتل حمزة بأحد، ثم أسلم وفي رواية التراث قتل مسيلمة الكذاب باليمامة. وفي الصحيح أخبر بنفسه لجعفر بن عمرو الضمري بحمص كيف كمن لحمزة تحت صخرة فرماه بحربته، وذلك لوعد مولاه جبير بن مطعم إياه الحرية على قتل حمزة بعمه طعيمة بن عدي {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 4072}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "battles",
  "slavery-and-freedom",
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 600.0006160290766,
  "latest": 646.0001916534588
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0600~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0645~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Date uncertain; he lived into the caliphate.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "وحشي بن حرب الحبشي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0600~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0645~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Date uncertain; he lived into the caliphate.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "military-opponent",
    "toward": "group/early-muslims",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0625"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0625"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Fought at Uhud and killed Hamza with a javelin, earning his freedom from his owner Jubayr ibn Mut'im.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Converted after the conquest; the tradition records him keeping away from the Prophet at first, from the weight of what he had done.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "commander",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0633"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Fought at Yamama; the tradition attributes to his javelin the killing of Musaylima — 'I killed the best of people and the worst of people.'",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
     "source/tabari-donner-1993"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630~"
    },
    "note": "Late convert; the tradition preserves his own words about his two killings.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q2738852"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/tabari-donner-1993",
   "source/sahih-al-bukhari"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "كان وحشي بن حرب عبدًا حبشيًّا اشتهر بحربته. في أحد قتل [[person/hamza|حمزة]] ابتغاء حريته؛ وأسلم بعد الفتح — ويقول التراث إن حربته قتلت بعدئذ مدّعي النبوة مسيلمة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "وعده مولاه جبير بن مطعم بالحرية إن قتل عمّ النبي. وفي [[event/battle-of-uhud|أحد]] رمى وحشي الحربة التي قتلت حمزة {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nوبعد الفتح كان يتجنّب النبي — يذكر التراث قوله إنه خاف ألّا يُغفر له. فأسلم، ويُروى أن النبي قبله وطلب إليه ألّا يراه {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nوفي [[event/battle-of-yamama|اليمامة]] سنة 632 أصابت حربته [[person/musaylima|مسيلمة]]. ويحفظ التراث تلخيصه بلسانه: «قتلت خير الناس وقتلت شرّ الناس» {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "حربتا وحشي تؤطّر الحقبة: رجل أصاب سلاحه أول شهداء الدين الكبار ثم أول مدّعيه الكبار."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "قتلت حربة وحشي بطلًا من أبطال الإسلام — ثم قتلت، بعد أن صار مسلمًا، الرجل الذي ادّعى النبوة كذبًا. وهو من قال ذلك."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/wahshi-ibn-harb",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-11"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Wahshi ibn Harb was an Abyssinian slave famed for his javelin. At Uhud he killed [[person/hamza|Hamza]] to win his freedom; after the conquest he became a Muslim — and the tradition says his javelin later killed the false prophet Musaylima."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "His owner Jubayr ibn Mut'im promised him freedom if he killed the Prophet's uncle. At [[event/battle-of-uhud|Uhud]] Wahshi threw the javelin that killed Hamza {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nAfter the conquest he kept out of the Prophet's sight — the tradition remembers him saying he feared he could not be forgiven. He converted, and the Prophet is reported to have accepted him while asking him to keep from his presence {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nAt [[event/battle-of-yamama|Yamama]] in 632 his javelin found [[person/musaylima|Musaylima]]. The tradition preserves his own summation: \"I killed the best of people and the worst of people\" {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "Wahshi's two javelins frame the era: the man whose weapon killed the faith's first great martyr and then its first great pretender."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Wahshi's spear killed a hero of Islam — and then, after he joined the Muslims, killed the man who falsely claimed to be a prophet. He said so himself."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/wahshi-ibn-harb",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-11"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "وحشی بن حرب ایک حبشی غلام تھے جو اپنے نیزے کی مہارت کے لیے مشہور تھے۔ [[event/battle-of-uhud|احد]] میں انہوں نے آزادی کی خاطر [[person/hamza|حمزہ]] کو قتل کیا۔ فتح مکہ کے بعد وہ مسلمان ہوئے۔ روایات کے مطابق بعد میں ان کے نیزے سے نبوت کے دعویدار مسیلمہ کو بھی قتل کیا گیا۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی",
     "markdown": "ان کے آقا جبیر بن مطعم نے وعدہ کیا کہ اگر وحشی نبی کے چچا کو قتل کریں تو انہیں آزادی ملے گی۔ احد میں وحشی نے وہ نیزہ پھینکا جس سے حمزہ شہید ہوئے۔ {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}\n\nفتح کے بعد وہ نبی کے سامنے آنے سے کتراتے رہے، روایت ہے کہ انہیں خوف تھا کہ شاید ان کی بخشش نہ ہو۔ پھر وہ مسلمان ہوئے، اور روایت ہے کہ نبی نے انہیں قبول کیا اور کہا کہ وہ ان کے سامنے نہ آیا کریں۔ {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}\n\n[[event/battle-of-yamama|یمامہ]] میں سنہ 632 میں ان کے نیزے نے [[person/musaylima|مسیلمہ]] کو زخمی کیا۔ روایت میں ان کا اپنا بیان محفوظ ہے، جس میں انہوں نے کہا کہ انہوں نے بہترین انسان کو بھی قتل کیا اور بدترین کو بھی۔ {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اثر",
     "markdown": "وحشی کے دونوں نیزے اس دور کو سمیٹتے ہیں: ایک آدمی کا ہتھیار پہلے بڑے دینی شہیدوں میں سے ایک پر لگا، اور پھر اس کے دعویدار کے سب سے بڑے شخص پر۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "چھوٹے زائرین کے لیے",
     "markdown": "وحشی کے نیزے نے اسلام کے ایک بہادر کو قتل کیا، پھر مسلمان ہونے کے بعد اسی نیزے نے اس شخص کو قتل کیا جس نے جھوٹا دعویٰ کیا تھا کہ وہ نبی ہے۔ یہ بات خود وحشی نے کہی۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/wahshi-ibn-harb",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 12,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-masud",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abu-dharr-al-ghifari",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/ali-ibn-abi-talib",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "person/asma-bint-abi-bakr",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas",
  "person/sajah",
  "person/salman-al-farisi"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-10-19",
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   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/hamza",
   "type": "fought",
   "inverse": false,
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    "edtf": "0625"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0625"
   },
   "note": "The sources record that he killed Hamza at Uhud.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-uhud",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "meccan-side",
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    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
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  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-yamama",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "muslim-side",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
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  {
   "to": "person/musaylima",
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   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0632"
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    "edtf": "0632"
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   "note": "The tradition attributes Musaylima's death to his javelin.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
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  {
   "to": "event/uhud-martyrdom-of-hamza",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "قتل حمزة بحربته طمعاً في العتق",
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 ],
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  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
  "event/battle-of-uhud",
  "event/uhud-martyrdom-of-hamza",
  "person/hamza",
  "place/uhud",
  "group/early-muslims",
  "event/battle-of-badr",
  "event/uhud-banner-bearers"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}