He was an old man who had reached one hundred and twenty years when the Prophet arrived in Medina. He provoked the enmity of the Prophet and did not enter Islam. When the Messenger of God went out to Badr and returned, and God granted him victory, Abu ‘Afak envited him and opposed him, saying: ‘Long have I lived but never have I seen An assembly or collection of people, more minds that came to a commitment swiftly when called. A rider dispossessed them of their affairs, splitting them into forbidden and permitted. If it was kingship that you believed in, you would have followed Tubba’.’ Salim b. ‘Umayr said – and he was one of the weepers of the Banu Najjar – ‘I vowed that I would kill Abu Afak or die in the attempt. I waited for a heedless moment.’ Then, one summer’s night, as Abu Afak slept in the courtyard with the Banu ‘Amr b. ‘Awf, Salim b. ‘Umayr approached, and pressed the sword upon his liver until it entered his bed. The enemy of God screamed. Those among the people who heard his words returned to him. They entered his place and buried him. They said, ‘Who killed him? By God, if we learn who killed him, we will surely kill him for it.’ Al-Nahdiyya, a Muslim woman, said these verses about that. ‘You lied about the religion of God and the man Ahmad. By the life of he who produced you, miserable is what he produced. A Hanif gave you, at the end of the night, a thrust. Abu ‘Afak, take it inspite of your age. Indeed if I knew who killed you in the dead of night Whether man or Jinn, I would not say.’” Ma’an b. ‘Umar related to me saying: “Ibn Ruqaysh informed me that Abu ‘Afak was killed in Shawwal, the twentieth month AH.” However, Al Waqidi was said by many Islamic Hadith scholars to be an unreliable source of information. Ibn Sa'd's accounts Another description of this story comes from The Major Classes by ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi:"Then occurred the "sariyyah" [raid] of Salim Ibn Umayr al-Amri against Abu Afak, the Jew, in [the month of] Shawwal in the beginning of the twentieth month from the hijra, of the Apostle of Allah. Abu Afak, was from Banu Amr Ibn Awf, and was an old man who had attained the age of