singers who always sang poems satirizing the Prophet. One of them was killed, and the other lived to the time of ʿUthmân when a rib of hers was broken and caused her death.
Miḳyas ibn-Ṣubâbah proscribed. Numailah ibn-ʿAbdallâh al-Kinâni killed Miḳyas ibn-Ṣubâbah-l-Kinâni, the Prophet having announced that whosoever finds him may kill him. The Prophet did this for the following reason: Miḳyas had a brother, Hâshim ibn-Ṣubâbah ibn-Ḥazn, who embraced Islâm and witnessed with the Prophet the invasion made on al-Muraisîʿ. Hâshim was mistaken by one of the Ansâr for a "polytheist" and killed. Miḳyas thereupon came to the Prophet and the Prophet decreed that the relatives of the slayer responsible for the bloodwit should pay it. Miḳyas received the bloodwit and became Moslem. Later he attacked his brother's slayer, slew him and took to flight, after which he apostatised from Islam and said:
"My soul has been healed by having him lie,
deep in the blood flowing from his veins his clothes soaked,
I took revenge on him by force leaving it,
for the leaders of banu-an-Najjâr, the high in rank, to pay his bloodwit,
thereby I attained my ambition, and satisfied my vengeance,
and I was the first to forsake Islâm."[1]
Al-Ḥuwairith proscribed. ʿAli ibn-abi-Ṭâlib killed al-Ḥuwairith ibn-Nuḳaidh ibn-Bujair[2] ibn-ʿAbd ibn-Ḳusai, the Prophet having declared that whosoever finds him may kill him.
Ibn-Khaṭal's slave-singers. Bakr ibn-al-Haitham from al-Kalbi:—A female slave-singer owned by Hilâl ibn-ʿAbdallâh, i. e., ibn-Khaṭal al-Adrami of the banu-Taim, came to the Prophet in disguise. She embraced Islâm and acknowl-
