Who Was Uqbah ibn Abi Muayt? Who attacked the Prophet ﷺ in prayer in Islamic History
Before the worldBefore Adam
The first nationsAdam to Ibrahim
Egypt and Bani Israilc. 1300–1000 BCE
Arabia before Islam523–570 CE
Enemies of the Prophet ﷺ610–632 CE
After the Prophet ﷺ632–1260 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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عقبة بن أبي معيط
Uqbah ibn Abi Muayt
Who attacked the Prophet ﷺ in prayer613–624 CE
Relied onThe protection of Quraysh
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Undone byCapture at Badr
He dropped a camel's entrails on the Prophet's ﷺ back while he prostrated at the Kaaba, and once twisted a cloth around his neck until Abu Bakr pulled him away.
How it ended
Captured at Badr and executed on the road back to Madinah.
And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, "Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way.
Authentic hadithBukhari 240 tells of the entrails without naming the man; the Seerah names him as Uqbah. The choking is in Bukhari 3856, his execution in the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq. The commentators say 25:27 is about him.Sahih al-Bukhari 240 ↗Sahih al-Bukhari 3856 ↗
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.
