Haram ibn Milhan

Ḥarām ibn Milḥān was a Companion and maternal uncle of Anas ibn Mālik, one of the seventy Companions sent to Najd under Abū al-Barāʾ's guarantee of protection (4 AH). Carrying a letter of introduction, he was sent ahead to ʿĀmir ibn al-Ṭufayl, a hostile chieftain who disregarded the protection entirely and signaled to a henchman to kill him. Ḥarām was speared from behind without warning; as he felt the blade pass through him, his last words were "Fuztu wa Rabbi-l-Kaʿbah, I have won, by the Lord of the Kaʿbah," a declaration of martyrdom that reportedly moved at least one witness to accept Islam on the spot. His assassination was the opening act of the Biʼr Maʿūnah massacre.