Al-Harith ibn Awf

al-Harith ibn 'Awf worked as a nobleman and a merchant. He proposed in marriage to a woman named Buhaysa, who felt that al-Harith was incompetent but still married him anyways.^[4] al-Harith would accepted the wisdom of Buhaysa, and later under instruction from her, he and his companion Kharija ibn Sinan (or Harim ibn Sinan^[b]) reconciled the tribes of Banu Abs and Banu Dhubyan who had been fighting for forty years in the Dahis and al-Ghabra conflict.^[4] Both men counted the dead from each tribe and paid the blood money for all of the deceased.^[5][6] This ended the forty-year conflict between both Adnanite tribes of the Ghatafan.

al-Harith ibn 'Awf led a delegation of the Banu Murra to Medina, meeting with the Islamic prophet Muhammad and then converting to Islam afterwards along with the rest of the delegation.^[7][8] al-Harith requested Muhammad to send a man from the Ansar to preach Islam to the rest of his tribe, which was accepted.^[7][8] However, the Ansari was killed by treachery from the other members of Banu Murra, which al-Harith had no control of.^[7][8] The poet Hassan ibn Thabit began to satirize al-Harith in his poetry, which prompted al-Harith to ask Muhammad to tell Hassan to stop.^[7][8] al-Harith also paid the full blood money payment for the Ansari and gave an apology which the Muslims accepted.^[8]

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