Download List of Prophet Muhammad Killings

List of Prophet Muhammad Killings
[A] Ordered by Muhammad [B] Supported but not ordered by Muhammad [C] Women and/or children [D] Apostates
[E] Reasons including writing or reciting poetry [F] Reasons including "causing offence" [G] Reasons including monetary gain
No.
1
2
3
Name
'Asma' bint Marwan
Abu 'Afak
Al Nadr ibn al-Harith
Date
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Notable Primary Sources
January 624[2]
Kill 'Asma' bint Marwan
for opposing Muhammad
Asma' bint Marwan
with poetry and for
assassinated[2][5]
provoking others to attack
him[3][4][2]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[6]
• Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-tabaqat
al-kabir, Volume 2[3]
February 624[7]
Kill the Jewish poet Abu
Afak for opposing
Muhammad through
poetry[4][6][7][8]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[9]
• Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-tabaqat
al-kabir, Volume 2[10]
After Battle of
Badr
March 624[11]
According to
Mubarakpuri, Al Nadir
was captured during the
Battle of Badr. A Qur'an
verse was revealed
ordering the execution of
Nadr bin Harith, he was
Nadr bin Harith beheaded by
one of two prisoners who Ali[11][12]
were executed and not
allowed to be ransomed
by their clans because he
mocked and harassed
Muhammad and wrote
poems and stories
Abu Afak assassinated[7][6][4]
• Qur'an 83:13[13]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[13]
No.
Name
Date
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Notable Primary Sources
criticizing him[11][12]
4
5
Uqba bin Abu Muayt
Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf
After Battle of
Badr
March 624[11]
Uqba bin Abu Muayt was
captured in the Battle of
Badr and was killed
instead of being
ransomed, because he
Uqba bin Abu Muayt
threw dead animal
beheaded by Asim ibn Thabbit
entrails on Muhammad, or Ali[11][12]
and wrapped his garmet
around Muhammad's
neck while he was
praying[11][12]
• Sunan Abu Dawud no.
2680 (with commentary
from Awnul Mabud 3/12)
[14]
• Sahih Bukhari 1:9:499
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[15]
• Tabari, Volume 9, The last
years of the Prophet[16]
September
624[17][18][19]
According to Ibn Ishaq,
Muhammad ordered his
followers to kill Ka'b
because he "had gone to
Mecca after Badr and
inveighed against
Muhammad. He also
composed verses in which Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf
he bewailed the victims of assassinated[21]
Quraysh who had been
killed at Badr. Shortly
afterwards he returned to
Medina and composed
amatory verses of an
insulting nature about the
Muslim women".[20][21]
• Sahih Bukhari 5:59:369,
Sahih Muslim 19:4436
No.
Name
Date
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Notable Primary Sources
December
624[22]
Kill Abu Rafi' ibn Abi AlHuqaiq for mocking
Muhammad with his
poetry and for helping the
Abu Rafi assassinated[23][22]
troops of the
Confederates by providing
them with money and
supplies[23][22]
• Sahih Bukhari 4:52:264,
Sahih Bukhari 5:59:370,
Sahih Bukhari 5:59:371,
Sahih Bukhari 5:59:372
and more[24]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[25]
• Tabari, Volume 7, The
foundation of the
community[26]
625[27]
Kill Khalid bin Sufyan,
because there were
reports he considered an
attack on Medina and
that he was inciting the
people on Nakhla or
Uranah to fight
Muslims[27][28]
• Musnad Ahmad 3:496[29]
• Abu Dawud, book 2
no.1244[30]
• Ibn Hisham, Sirat Rasul
Allah[27]
• Tabari, Volume 9, The last
years of the Prophet[31]
[32]
8
Abu 'Azzah 'Amr bin
'Abd Allah al-Jumahi
March 625[33]
Behead Abu 'Azzah 'Amr
bin 'Abd Allah al-Jumahi
because he was a
prisoner of War captured
Abu 'Azzah beheaded by
during the Invasion of
Ali[34][35]
Hamra al-Asad, that
Muhammad released
once, but he took up arms
against him again[34][35]
• Tabari, Volume 7, The
foundation of the
community[35]
9
Muawiyah bin Al
March 625[33]
Kill Muawiyah bin Al
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
6
7
Abu Rafi' ibn Abi AlHuqaiq
Khalid ibn Sufyan
Khalid ibn Sufyan
assassinated[27][28]
Muawiyah bin Al Mugheerah
No.
Name
Date
Mugheerah
10
Al-Harith bin Suwayd al- March 625[33]
Ansari
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Mugheerah, because he
was accused by
Muhammad of being a
spy. He went to Uthman
(his cousin) for shelter,
and Uthman arranged for captured and executed[34]
his return to Mecca, but [37]
he stayed too long in
Medina. After
Muhammad heard he was
still in Medina, he
ordered his death[34][36]
Kill Al-Harith bin Suwayd Al-Harith bin Suwayd
because according to
beheaded by Uthman[37][38]
Islamic tradition, Allah
[39]
revealed Qur'an 3:86,
which indicated that
those who reject Islam
after accepting it should
be put to death. Al-Harith
bin Suwayd was a Muslim
who fought in the Battle
of Uhud and killed some
Muslims, he then joined
the Quraysh and left
Islam. Al-Harith sent his
brother to Muhammad
for his forgiveness.
Muhammad allowed his
Notable Primary Sources
Sirat Rasul Allah[37]
• Qur'an 3:86[38][39]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[37]
No.
Name
Date
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Notable Primary Sources
return but then decided
to kill him.[37][38][39]
[40]
11
Amr bin Umayyah alDamri sent to assassinate 3 polytheists killed by
Abu Sufyan (Quraysh
Muslims[42]
leader)[42][42]
• Tabari, Volume 7, The
foundation of the
community[43]
Abu Sufyan
627[41]
12
Banu Qurayza tribe
Attack Banu Qurayza
because according to
Muslim tradition he had
been ordered to do so by
the angel Gabriel.[45][46]
[47][48][49][50] One of
Muhammad's
Muslims: 2 killed[45]
companions decided that Non-Muslims:
"the men should be killed,
1. 600-900 beheaded
February–March the property divided, and
(Tabari, Ibn Hisham)
627[44]
the women and children
[45][46][55]
taken as captives".
2. All Males and 1 woman
Muhammad approved of
beheaded
the ruling, calling it
(Hadith)[56][57]
similar to God's
judgment,[48][49][51][52]
[53] after which all male
members of the tribe who
had reached puberty
were beheaded[46][54]
• Qur'an 33:26,[46] Qur'an
33:09 & 33:10[58][59]
• Abu Dawud 38:4390
• Sahih Bukhari 4:52:68,
Sahih Bukhari 4:57:66 and
more
• Tabari, Volume 8, Victory
of Islam[60]
13
Abdullah ibn Ubayy
December
• Sahih Bukhari 5:59:462,
Kill Abdullah ibn Ubayy,
Muhammad calls off
No.
Name
Date
627[41]
(during Invasion
of Banu
Mustaliq[61] )
Al-Yusayr ibn Rizam
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
who was accused by
Muhammad of slandering
his family by spreading
false rumors about Aisha
(his wife).[62] His son
offered to behead
him[63][64]
Result
Notable Primary Sources
assassination and says to
Umar "if I had had him
(Abdullah bin Ubai) killed, a
large number of dignitaries
would have furiously hastened
to fight for him"[65] Later he
reveals a Quran verse
forbidding Muslims from
attending the funeral of
disbelievers and
"hypocrites"[66][67]
Sahih Bukhari 5:59:462
• Ibn Hisham, Sirat Rasul
Allah[65]
30 killed by Muslims[68][69]
14
February 628[41] Kill Al-Yusayr ibn Rizam
because Muhammad
heard that his group was
preparing to attack
him[68][69]
Muslims: 1 killed
Non-Muslims: 8 tortured to
death[72][73]
15
Eight men from 'Ukil
Kill 8 men who came to
him and converted to
Islam, but then
February 628[41] apostatized, killed one
Muslim and drove off
with Muhammad's
camels[72]
Rifa’ah bin Qays
629[75][76]
16
• Tirmidhi no. 3923[70]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[71]
To kill Rifa’ah bin Qays,
because Muhammad
1 beheaded,[77] 4 women
heard they were allegedly
captured by Muslims[78]
enticing the people of
Qais to fight him[76]
• Qur'an 5:33-39[72][74]
• Sahih Bukhari 1:4:234,
Sahih Bukhari 5:59:505,
Sahih Bukhari 7:71:623
and more
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[77]
• Tabari, Volume 8, History
of Islam[78]
No.
17
18
19
Name
Date
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Notable Primary Sources
• Sahih Bukhari 5:59:582,
Sahih Bukhari 3:29:72
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[82]
• Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-tabaqat
al-kabir, Volume 2[83]
Abdullah bin Khatal
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79][80]
[81]
Fartana
Kill Fartana (a slave girl of
During/after
Abdullah ibn Khatal),
Conquest of
because she used to
Fartana is killed[79][81][84]
Mecca
recite poems insulting
(Jan 630)[79][84]
Muhammad[79][81]
• Abu Dawud 14:2678
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[85]
• Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-tabaqat
al-kabir, Volume 2[83]
Quraybah
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
Kill Quraybah (a slave girl
of Abdullah ibn Khatal),
Quraybah converts to Islam
because she used to
and is pardoned[79][83]
recite poems insulting
Muhammad[79]
• Abu Dawud 14:2678
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[85]
• Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-tabaqat
al-kabir, Volume 2[83]
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
When Muhammad's
daughters were fleeing
Medina, he stabbed their
Huwayrith ibn Nafidh
camels, causing injuries.
killed[81][86] by Ali[79]
He was a poet who
"disgraced and abused"
Islam[79][81][86]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[82]
20
Huwayrith ibn Nafidh
21
Miqyas ibn Subabah
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
Kill Abdullah bin Khatal
for killing a slave and
fleeing, as well and for
reciting poems insulting
Muhammad[79][80][81]
Result
2 Muslims execute him, after
finding him hiding under the
curtains of the Ka'aba[79][80]
[81]
Miqyas killed a Muslim
Miqyas killed[79][81][86]
who accidentally killed his
brother, and escaped to
Mecca and became an
apostate by embracing
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[82]
No.
Name
Date
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Notable Primary Sources
polytheism[79][81][82]
[86]
22
Sarah
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
Conflicting reports:
1. Ibn Ishaq reports that
Kill Sarah, because
she embraced Islam
Muhammad claimed that
but was killed later,
she used to molest him
during the time of
while he was in
Umar[82]
Mecca[79][82]
2. Tabari reports she was
killed[87]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[82]
• Tabari, Volume 8, History
of Islam[87]
Kill Harith ibn Hisham,
reason unknown[79][82]
According to Ibn Sa'd, Zubayr
ibn Abi Umayyah and Harith
ibn Hisham both sought
refuge in a Muslim relatives
house, the relative pleaded
with Muhammad for mercy,
so he pardoned them on the
condition they embrace
Islam[79][88]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[82]
• Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-tabaqat
al-kabir, Volume 2[88]
See above result[79][82]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[82]
23
Harith ibn Hisham
24
During/after
Conquest of
Zubayr ibn Abi Umayyah
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
Kill Zubayr ibn Abi
Umayyah, reason
unknown[79][82]
Habbar Ibn al-Aswad bin During/after
Ka`b al-`Ansi
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
Kill Habbar ibn al-Aswad
because he was a "liar",
[89][90] he claimed he
was a Prophet[89]
25
Habbar ibn al-Aswad killed[89]
[90]
• Sahih Bukhari 5:59:662,
Sahih Bukhari 4:56:817
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[82]
• Tabari, Volume 9, The last
No.
Name
Date
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Notable Primary Sources
years of the Prophet[89]
• Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-tabaqat
al-kabir, Volume 2[91]
Ikrimah ibn Abu Jahl
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
Conflicting reports
1. Ibn Ishaq says, his wife
Kill Ikrimah ibn Abu Jahl,
"became a Muslim and
bcause he was hostile to
asked for immunity for
Muhammad like his father
him and the apostle
Abu Jahl[79][82]
gave it"[82]
2. Tabari says he was
"eliminated"[92]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[82]
• Tabari, Volume 8, History
of Islam[92]
Wahshi ibn Harb
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
Kill Wahshi ibn Harb, for
killing Muhammad's uncle
during the Battle of
Uhud[79]
Wahshi ibn Harb pardoned by
Muhammad after he asks for
forgiveness and offers to
convert to Islam[79][93]
• Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-tabaqat
al-kabir, Volume 2[93]
Ka'b ibn Zuhayr ibn Abi
Sulama
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
Assassinate Ka'b ibn
Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulama for
writing satirical poems
about Muhammad[79]
[94][95][96]
Ibn Ishaq wrote that
Muhammad said "Leave him
alone, he has become a
repentant Muslim after the
disposal of his past.", so he
was pardoned[95][96]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[96]
29
Al-Harith bin al-Talatil
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
For mocking Muhammad Al-Harith bin al-Talatil is killed
through poetry[79]
by Ali[79][97]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[97]
30
Abdullah ibn Zib'ari
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
Kill Abdullah ibn Zib'ari,
for writing insulting
poems about
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah
26
27
28
Abdullah ibn Zib'ari repents
and converts to Islam, so
Muhammad pardoned
No.
31
32
33
34
Name
Date
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Notable Primary Sources
(Jan 630)[79]
Muhammad[79]
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
Tabari Volume 39 states,
Kill Hubayrah, for mocking Hubayrah "ran away when
Muhammad through
Mecca was conquered, and
poetry[79]
died in Najran as an
infidel"[79]
• Tabari, Volume 39,
Biographies of the
Prophet's companions and
their successors[98]
Hind bint Utbah
During/after
Conquest of
Mecca
(Jan 630)[79]
Kill Hind bint Utbah (wife
of Abu Sufyan) for cutting
out the heart of
Muhammad's uncle
Hamza after he died,
during the Battle of
Uhud[79]
• Abu Dawud 33:4153
• Tabari, Volume 8, History
of Islam[99]
Amr ibn Jihash (convert
to Islam)[100]
According to Ibn Kathir
and Ibn Ishaq,
Muhammad said to Yamin
bim Umayr, about Amr
During the
ibn Jash "Have you seen Amr ibn Jihash is assassinated
Invasion of Banu
the way your cousin has after a Muslim offers a reward
Nadir[100]
treated me and what he for his killing[100]
(Aug 625)[101]
proposed to do?"[102]
[100] Muhammad
accused him of trying to
assassinate him[103]
King or Prince of
Dumatul Jandal
October
630[104]
Hubayrah
him[79]
Tabari said, Hind "swore
allegiance and became a
Muslim.",[99] she was
pardoned by Muhammad[79]
Attack the chief of Duma 1 killed, 2 taken captive[107]
for Jizyah and booty[105]
[106]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[102]
• Abu Dawud 19:3031
• Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-tabaqat
al-kabir, Volume 2[108]
• Tabari, Volume 9, The last
No.
Name
Date
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Notable Primary Sources
years of the Prophet[105]
35
36
Unknown
Umaiya bin Khalaf Abi
Safwan
Kill Umaiya bin Khalaf,
Muhammad's reason is
unknown.[109] But Bilal
wanted to kill him for
torturing him[110]
Blind man's
wife/concubine
Unknown
Muhammad supported
this killing because the
Blind Muslim kills his
women insulted him[111] wife/concubine[111][112]
[112]
• Abu Dawud 38:4348
• Sunan al-Nasai no. 4081
Muhammad reportedly
ordered his followers to
"kill any Jew that falls into
Ibn Sunayna killed by
your power", Muhayissa
Muhayissa[113][114]
heard this and went out
to kill Ibn Sunayna (a Jew)
[113][114]
• Abu Dawud 19:2996
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[115]
37
Ibn Sunayna
Unknown
38
Abdullah ibn Sa‘ad
Unknown
Kill Abdullah ibn Sa‘ad,
because he became and
apostate (left Islam) and
fled to Mecca. He also
claimed that he was the
one who wrote the
Qur'an and started to
mock Muhammad, which
made him angry[116]
Umaiya bin Khalaf killed by
Bilal[109][110]
A misunderstanding leads to
his pardoning. Abdullah ibn
Sa‘ad was brought in front of
Muhammad and offered his
loyalty, Muhammad upheld
his hand to indicate that his
followers should kill him, but
the Muslims thought he
pardoned him.[116] He said
"Was not there a wise man
among you who would stand
• Sahih Bukhari 4:56:826
• Abu Dawud 38:4346
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[85]
No.
Name
Date
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Notable Primary Sources
up to him when he saw that I
had withheld my hand from
accepting his allegiance, and
kill him?"[117]
39
40
Ibn an-Nawwahah
Blind Jew
Unknown
According to Ibn Kathir,
Muhammad once said
about Ibn an-Nawwahah
"I would have cut off your
head, if it was not that
emissaries are not killed"
Abdullah ibn Masud beheads
because he claimed
Ibn an-Nawwahah[118][119]
Musaylimah was a
Prophet, so Abdullah ibn
Masud killed Ibn anNawwahah when he was
no longer an
emissary[118][119]
• Abu Dawud 14:2756
• Tabari, Volume 10,
Conquest of Arabia[120]
Unknown
Muhammad's followers
kill a blind Jew for
throwing dust at his
face[121][122]
Blind Jew killed by Sa'd ibn
Zayd[121][122]
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[123]
• Tabari, Volume 7, The
foundation of the
community[122]
Salama bin Al-Akwa chases
and kills the suspected
spy[124][125]
• Sahih Bukhari 4:52:286
41
Nameless spy
Unknown
Kill a man Muhammad
suspected of being a
spy[124][125]
42
Man from Aslam tribe
Unknown
Kill a man from the Aslam
Man from Aslam tribe stoned
tribe for Adultery[126]
to death[126][127]
[127]
• Abu Dawud 38:4414
No.
43
Name
Kinana ibn al-Rabi
Date
July 628[128]
Reason(s) for Ordering or
Supporting Killing
Result
Torture Kinana ibn al-Rabi
to find location of
Kinana ibn al-Rabi
allegedly hidden
beheaded[129][130]
treasure[129][130]
Notable Primary Sources
• Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq,
Sirat Rasul Allah[131]