Before Islam al-Harith ibn 'Awf worked as a nobleman and a merchant. He proposed in marriage to a woman named Buhaysa, who felt that al-Harith was incompetent but still married him anyways. al-Harith would accepted the wisdom of Buhaysa, and later under instruction from her, he and his companion
Kharija ibn Sinan (or Harim ibn Sinan) reconciled the tribes of
Banu Abs and
Banu Dhubyan who had been fighting for forty years in the
Dahis and al-Ghabra conflict. This ended the forty-year conflict between both Adnanite tribes of the
Ghatafan.
After Islam al-Harith ibn 'Awf led a delegation of the Banu Murra to
Medina, meeting with the Islamic prophet
Muhammad and then converting to Islam afterwards along with the rest of the delegation. al-Harith requested Muhammad to send a man from the
Ansar to preach Islam to the rest of his tribe, which was accepted. However, the Ansari was killed by treachery from the other members of Banu Murra, which al-Harith had no control of. The poet
Hassan ibn Thabit began to satirize al-Harith in his poetry, which prompted al-Harith to ask Muhammad to tell Hassan to stop. al-Harith also paid the full blood money payment for the Ansari and gave an apology which the Muslims accepted. == See also ==