Murarah ibn ar-Rabi al-Amri

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Murarah (may Allah be pleased with him) was the son of ar-Rabi, of the Banu Amr ibn Awf, the clan of the Ansar of Quba who first received the Prophet ﷺ. Not much is recorded of his life, except that he was at Badr, which Ka'b ibn Malik's account says of him and of Hilal ibn Umayyah.

Ka'b ibn Malik told that he was told of two men who had said the same as he had, and had been given the same order, Murarah ibn ar-Rabi al-Amri and Hilal ibn Umayyah al-Waqifi, and that they were two righteous men who had been at Badr, and in whom there was an example for him. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the Muslims to speak to the three of them, and they kept away from the people until the land itself seemed strange to him, for fifty nights. The two of them stayed in their houses and wept (Sahih al-Bukhari). Allah then accepted their repentance, and named the three together in the verse about those who were left behind (Sahih al-Bukhari).

Ka'b's own account is the one most Muslims know, and it is from him that the memory of the other two has come down. The verse was not revealed for Ka'b alone, but for the three of them together, so that the pain of the other two is written in the Qur'an as his is. Nothing more is recorded of what Murarah said or did in those nights.

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