Rabi'ah ibn al-Harith
Rabi'ah ibn al-Harith () (c.566-c.640) was a first cousin and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Family. He was a son of Al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib of the Hashim clan of the Quraysh in Mecca. He married his cousin Umm al-Hakam bint al-Zubayr and they had nine children. Conversion to Islam. It is said that Rabi'ah did not fight at the Battle of Badr in 624 because he was in Syria at the time. In 627, at the time of the Battle of the Ditch, he converted to Islam and emigrated  to Medina. Bloodwit case. Rabi'ah's son Adam was a small child living with a foster-mother from the Bakr tribe. The Bakr were at war with the Hudhayl. Adam crept out in front of the tents and was caught in the cross-fire of the battle. A rock thrown by a Hudhayl man hit and crushed his head, which killed him. Rabi'ah intended to demand blood-money or a counter-killing from the Hudhayl for the death of his son. Before this could happen, Muhammad conquered Mecca. On that day Muhammad cancelled all bloodwit debts and he specifically named  Rabi'ah's case as the first to be cancelled. However, Ibn Ishaq asserts that the cancellation was declared two years later, at the Farewell Pilgrimage of 632. All blood shed in the pagan period is to be left unavenged. The first claim on blood I abolish is that of Ibn Rabia ibn Al-Harith ibn Abdalmuttalib. It is the first blood shed in the pagan period which I deal with. Hence Muhammad prevented Rabi'ah from claiming revenge from the killer. Later life. Rabī'ah and his brother Abū Sufyān were among the ten people who did not flee in the Battle  of Hunayn. He is involved in the Hadith of the ten promised paradise. Rabi'ah died after 636 but before 644.