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 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.

. 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:

. ʿAli ibn-abi-Ṭâlib killed al-Ḥuwairith ibn-Nuḳaidh ibn-Bujair ibn-ʿAbd ibn-Ḳusai, the Prophet having declared that whosoever finds him may kill him.

. 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