Shaybah ibn Rabi'ah (Arabic: شيبة بن ربيعة) (c.560-624) was the brother of Utbah ibn Rabi'ah belonging to the clan of Banu Abd Shams (parent clan of Banu Umayyah) from the tribe of Quraysh of Mecca. He was also a champion of the Meccan army sent along with his brother Utbah and his nephew Walid ibn Utbah in the Battle of Badr in around 624 AD (2 AH). In a three against three match before the actual battle began, he was killed by Ali ibn Abi Talib who was the cousin and sahaba of Muhammad.
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Patriarchal Lineage
Fahr (Quraysh) | Ghalib | Lu'awy | Ka'b | Murrah | Kilab | Qusayy | Abd Manaf Al-Mugheera | Abd Shams | Rabi'ah ___|____ | | Utbah ShaybahDeath
A tradition from Sunan Abi Daud that relates the incident at the Battle of Badr:
Narrated from Ali: Utbah ibn Rabi'ah came forward followed by his son and his brother and cried out: Who will be engaged in single combat? Some young men of the Ansar responded to his call. He asked: Who are you? They told him. He said: We do not want you; we, in fact, want only our cousins. Muhammad said, "Get up Hamzah. Get up Ali. Get up Ubaydah ibn al-Harith. Hamzah went forward to Utbah, I went forward to Shaybah; and after two blows had been exchanged between Ubaydah and al-Walid, they wounded one another severely; so we turned against al-Walid and killed him, and we carried Ubaydah away.