Al-Rijal ibn Anfuwa al-Hanafi: His Life and Death

Abstract

Our research deals with the biography of the men of Anfuh al-Hanafi. The news and narrations, though few, have crystallized the features of his biography, which is full of contradictions. After he was one of the memorizers and reciters of the Qur’an and one of the worshippers who prostrated and was present among the delegation of Banu Hanifa who went to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to pledge allegiance to him, he quickly turned away as soon as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away. He was tempted by the money that he found with Musaylimah the Liar, to join him in the most famous and dangerous movement known as the movement of apostasy, which tried to abort the newly formed Arab Islamic state, so his life ended with his killing at the hands of the Arab Muslims led by Khalid bin al-Walid and the end of the danger to the emerging state.