Biography of Rifa'ah ibn Abd al-Mundhir
Rafi'ah ibn Abd al-Munthir ibn Zanbar ibn Zayd ibn Umayyah ibn Zayd ibn Malik ibn Awf ibn Amr ibn Awf ibn Malik ibn al-Aws, Abu Lababah al-Ansari al-Awsi. He is well-known by his kunyah.
His name has been disputed, it has been said: Rafa'.
and it has been said: Bashir.
He was mentioned in the previous biography, and we will mention him again in the kunyah section, God willing.
He set out with the Prophet ﷺ to Badr, and the Prophet ﷺ returned him from the Ruha' to Medina as its commander, and struck him with his arrow and rewarded him.
He was narrated from by Ibn Umar, Abd al-Rahman ibn Yazid, Abu Bakr ibn Amr ibn Hazm, Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, Salman al-Agharr, Abd al-Rahman ibn Ka'b ibn Malik, and others.
He was the one who was sent by the Messenger of God ﷺ to the Banu Quraizah when they were besieged.
We were informed by Abu Ja'far ibn al-Simn, with his chain of transmission to Muhammad ibn Ishaq, who said: My father Ishaq ibn Yasar informed me, from Ma'bad ibn Ka'b ibn Malik al-Sulami, who said: 'Then they sent to the Messenger of God ﷺ: Send us Abu Lababah ibn Abd al-Munthir, for they were allies of the Aws, to consult with him regarding their affair.'
So the Messenger of God ﷺ sent him to them, and when they saw him, the men stood up to him, and the women and children wept in front of him, and he dispersed them, and they said to him: O Abu Lababah, do you see that we should submit to the judgment of Muhammad? He said: Yes, and he pointed to a ring, that is the slaughter, Abu Lababah said: By God, my feet were trembling when I realized that I had betrayed God and His Messenger, then he set out towards him, and the Messenger of God ﷺ did not arrive until he was tied in the mosque to