Muhammed ordered the killing of an elderly woman called Umm Qirfa by putting a rope into her two legs and to two camels and driving them until they separated her in two and later, her severed head was paraded all over the streets of Medina.
She belonged to a pagan tribe named Banu Fazara in the valley of al-Qurra. She was the chief of her clan. Muhammad and his followers raided and overpowered them.
Afterwards, Umm Qirfa was beheaded and her head was brought to Medina and presented to Muhammad as proof of her execution.
The attack took place six years after Muhammad’s Hijra (هِجْرَة Migration) to Medina in 622 AD.
Sources: Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah
Ibn Ishaq adds that Umm Qirfa's daughter, taken captive, was given to Muhammad's companion Salama b. Amr b. al-Akwa, who presented her to his uncle Hazn b. Abu Wahb and she bore him Abdul-Rahman b. Hazn.
Sahih Bukhari 9:88:219 suggested that the motivation for the execution might have been a consequence of Zyad b. Harithah emulates Muhammad's inability to tolerate women in leadership roles in society.
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