Al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil
ٱلْعَاص بْن وَائِلAl-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil
Chief of Quraysh · Merchant
Biography
Al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil was a rich and powerful chief of Quraysh, of the clan of Banu Sahm, and the father of the companion ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ. His refusal to pay a Yemeni merchant of Zubaid for goods he had bought, trusting in his own power and the man's friendlessness in Mecca, was the wrong that provoked the Pact of Ḥilf al-Fuḍūl.
Significance
The oppressor whose injustice to a stranger occasioned the noble covenant of Ḥilf al-Fuḍūl.
Stories
The Alliance of the Virtuous
Some years after the Fijār Wars, when the Prophet ﷺ was about twenty, a nobler event took place. A merchant of the tribe of Zubaid, come from Yemen fo…
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