Who Was Ubayy ibn Khalaf? Who crumbled a bone in Islamic History

Before the worldBefore Adam

The first nationsAdam to Shuayb

Egypt and Bani Israilc. 1300–1000 BCE

Bani Israil and Romec. 1000 BCE – 250 CE

Arabia before IslamUp to 570 CE

Enemies of the Prophet ﷺ610–632 CE

After the Prophet ﷺ632–1000 CE

Crusades and conquests1090–1502 CE

The end of timeStill to come

Ten signs before the Hour

Isa ibn Maryam descends
A landslide in the east
A landslide in the west
A landslide in Arabia
The smoke
The sun rises from the west
The Beast of the earth
A fire from Yemen drives people to their gathering

Sahih Muslim lists ten major signs before the Hour without fixing their order. This follows a common order given by the scholars. Sahih Muslim 2901a ↗

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أبي بن خلف

Ubayy ibn Khalaf

Who crumbled a bone613–625 CE

Relied onA horse he fattened for the day

Undone byA graze from the Prophet's ﷺ spear

Brother of Umayyah ibn Khalaf. He crumbled an old bone in front of the Prophet ﷺ and asked who could give it life. He swore he would kill the Prophet ﷺ on a horse he was feeding for that day.

How it ended

At Uhud he charged the Prophet ﷺ, who took a spear and grazed his neck. He died of the wound on the way back to Makkah, the only man the Prophet ﷺ killed with his own hand.

Say, "He will give them life who produced them the first time; and He is, of all creation, Knowing."
Quran 36:79

The lessonHe who made them the first time will give them life again (36:79).

In the Quran

36:77-83

Stood against
Source: In the Quran, named by the commentatorsThe commentators say 36:77-79 came down about him; some say al-As ibn Wa'il. His death at Uhud is from Ibn Ishaq.

Every villain in Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal

Each entry is drawn from the Quran, authentic hadith (with links to sunnah.com), the classical commentators and the historians. Companions who fought Islam and later became Muslim are not included, nor are figures Muslims disagree about.