Banu Mustaliq

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Banu Muttalib is a Arabic sub-clan Banu Khuza'a, a clan of the Quraish tribe.

[edit] History

They occupied the territory of Qadid on the Red Sea shore between Jeddah and Rabigh ^{[citation needed]}.

They where involved in a battle against the Islamic prophet Muhammad during 5 AH:

During the battle of Banu Mustaliq, in the fifth year of the Hijra, he married Juwayriyya bint al-Harith ibn Abi Dirar. The reason behind his marriage to her was for the purpose of drawing her father closer to the Prophet and raising her position. Juwayriyya was from the captives of Banu Mustaliq, and had fallen in the hands of one of the Ansar. She was the daughter of the leader of Banu Mustaliq, so she wanted to free herself from her master to whom she had become a slave-girl. Her master increased the ransom money knowing that she was the daughter of the leader of Banu Mustaliq. So her father approached the Prophet with the ransom required to free her, which he did. Then after believing in the Message of the Prophet he became a Muslim, and he took his daughter Juwayriyya to the Prophet and she too embraced Islam, so the Prophet asked her father for her hand. He married her to the Prophet himself so the Prophet’s marriage to her was in fact a marriage to the daughter of a leader of a tribe which he had subjugated. His objective was to win the friendship of its leader through marrying his daughter. ^[1]