Editing Musaylima (section)

{{Short description|7th-century Arabian claimant of prophethood}}
{{Infobox person
| image              = Balami - Tarikhnama - The death of Musaylima at the hand of the Ethiopian Slave Wahshi (cropped).jpg
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| caption            = The killing scene of Musaylima at the hand of [[Wahshi ibn Harb]] in ''[[Tarikhnama]]''
| native_name        = مُسَيْلِمَةُ
| native_name_lang   = ar
| pronunciation      = 
| other_names        = Maslama ibn Habib <br>
Musaylima al-Kadhab / Musaylima the Liar (by Muslims)
| birth_date         = 
| birth_place        = [[al-Yamama]]
| death_date         = 632
| death_place        = al-Yamama
| resting_place      = Not Known
| resting_place_coordinates = 
| spouse             = [[Sajah|Sajah bint al-Harith]]
| mother             = Not Known
| father             = Habib
}}
'''Musaylima''' ({{langx|ar|مُسَيْلِمَةُ}}){{efn|otherwise known as '''Abū Thumāma Musaylima ibn Ḥabīb''' ({{langx|ar|أبو ثمامة مسيلمة ابن حبيب}})<ref>{{Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition|volume=7|title=Musaylima|page(s)=664-665|first=William Montgomery|last=Watt|authorlink=W. Montgomery Watt|url=https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EIEO/SIM-5580.xml?rskey=tLlgcx}}</ref> or '''Musaylima ibn Thumāma ibn Kabīr ibn Ḥabīb''' ({{langx|ar|مسيلمة بن ثمامة بن كثير بن حبيب }})<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Musaylima |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān |url=https://ia801303.us.archive.org/17/items/encyclopediaKURAN_vol3/encyclopediaKURAN_vol3.pdf |last=Kister |first=Meir Jacob |author-link=Meir Jacob Kister |pages=460-463}}</ref>}}, d.632, was a claimant of prophethood<ref>{{cite journal |first=D. S. |last=Margoliouth |author-link=David Samuel Margoliouth |title=On the Origin and Import of the Names Muslim and Ḥanīf |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |volume=5 |year=1903 |pages=467–493 |doi=10.1017/S0035869X00030744 |jstor=25208542 |s2cid=162441218 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1647164 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Beliaev |first=E. A. |title=Arabs, Islam and Arabian Khalifat in the middle ages |edition=2nd |location=Moscow |year=1966 |pages=103–108 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Petrushevskii |first=I. P. |title=Islam in Iran in VII–XV centuries |location=Leningrad |year=1966 |pages=13–14 }}</ref> from the [[Banu Hanifa]] tribe.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_-hrXU-mWYC&pg=PA61|title=A Brief History of Iraq|last1=Fattah|first1=Hala Mundhir|last2=Caso|first2=Frank|date=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=9780816057672|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAxh0K8-BVgC&pg=PA264|title=Critical Lives: Muhammad|last=Emerick|first=Yahiya|date=2002-04-01|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781440650130|language=en}}</ref> Based from [[Diriyah]] in present day [[Riyadh|Riyadh, Saudi Arabia]], he claimed to be a [[prophet]] and was an enemy of Islam in 7th-century Arabia. He was a leader of the enemies of Islam during the [[Ridda wars]].<ref name="Glubb">{{cite book |author=John Bagot Glubb |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmbdpwAACAAJ |title=The Great Arab Conquest |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |year=1963 |pages=112}}</ref> He is considered by [[Muslims]] to be a [[false prophet]] ({{lang|ar|نبي كاذب}}).<ref name="vol1">{{Cite book | last =Ibn Kathīr | first =Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUmar | author-link =Ibn Kathir | year =2000 | title =al-Miṣbāḥ al-munīr fī tahdhīb tafsīr Ibn Kathīr | volume =1 | place =Riyadh, Saʻudi Arabia | publisher =Darussalam | page =68 | editor=Ṣafī al-Raḥmān Mubārakfūrī | editor-link=Ṣafī al-Raḥmān Mubārakfūrī }}</ref> He is commonly called '''Musaylima al-Kadhāb''' ({{langx|ar|مسيلمة الكذاب|lit=Musaylima the Arch-Liar|label=none}}) by Muslims.<ref name=":0" /> Musaylima was said to have composed in [[saj']], a type of rhymed prose that was common in pre-Islamic artistic speech.{{Sfn|Gelder|2012}}