Hazrat Murara ibn al-Rabi'

Third of the Three

Murara was among the three sincere men who stayed back from Tabuk — with Ka’b ibn Malik رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Ka'b ibn Malikرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُOne of three whose sincere repentance Allah accepted in the Qur'anAnsar · Narrators of Hadith and Hilal ibn Umayya رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Hilal ibn Umayyaرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُOne of the three sincere Companions left behind at Tabuk, named in Surah al-Tawbah 9:118Ansar. 1 Hayatus Sahaba · Vol 1 · pp. 458 — Kandhlawi — Murara ibn al-Rabi' among the three Tabuk-laggards.

Their fifty-day boycott ended with the revelation of Surah al-Tawbah 9:118 — “…until the earth, vast as it was, became straitened for them, and their own souls became straitened for them…” 2 Seerat-e-Mustafa · Vol 3 · pp. 122–124 — Idris Kandhlawi — Surah al-Tawbah 9:117–118 revealed; the Three Left Behind.