Editing Zayd b. Ruqad al-Junnabi

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 | Full name = Zayd b. Ruqad al-Junnabi
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 | Well Known As =Contributing to martyrdom of Suwayd b. Amr b. Abi Muta' and Abd Allah b. Muslim 
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 | Lineage =Junnab 
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 | Cause of Death/martyrdom =In the Uprising of [[al-Mukhtar]], he was finally shot by Abd Allah b. Kamil and his people with arrows, and his half-alive corpse was burned. 
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|Native name=(زَید بن رُقاد (ورقاء) الجُنَّبی (الجَنِبی}}'''Zayd b. Ruqad (Qarqa') al-Junnabi (al-Janibi)''' (Arabic: (زَید بن رُقاد (ورقاء) الجُنَّبی (الجَنِبی)) served as an archer in [[Omar Ibn Sa’d|Omar b. Sa'd]]'s army  in the Battle of [[Karbala]]. He participated in battles led to the [[martyrdom]] of [[Abbas B. ʿAli B. Abu Taleb|Abbas b. Ali]] and [[Suwayd b. 'Amr al-Khath'ami|Suwayd b. 'Amr b. Abi Muta']]. According to some sources, he was also responsible for killing 'Abd Allah b. Muslim. In the Uprising of [[al-Mukhtar]], he was finally shot by 'Abd Allah b. Kamil's soldiers with arrows, and then his half-alive corpse was burned.


==Name and Genealogy==
His name was mentioned with some variation in sources as Zayd b. Warqa' al-Hanafi, Zayd b. Warqa' al-Juhani, Zayd b. Ruqad al-Hini, Yazid b. Warqa', and Yazid b. Ruqad al-Juhani as well. Zayd b. Ruqad was from the Junnab tribe.

==On the Day of Ashura==
In the Battle of Karbala, Zayd b. Ruqad was a member of Omar b. Sa'd's army. He contributed to the [[martyrdom]] of Abbas b. Ali and Suwayd b. 'Amr b. Abi Muta' (the last martyr on the Day of Ashura). Based on some accounts, he killed 'Abd Allah b. Muslim as well.

==Fate==
In the course of uprising, al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi asked [['Abd Allah b. Kamil]] to kill Zayd b. Ruqad. When he was surrounded, ibn Kamil ordered his people not to hit him with swords and spears; he ordered them to shoot him with arrows and stone him, instead. He was burned while he was still almost alive.

==Refrences==

*[http://en.wikishia.net/view/Zayd_b._Ruqad_al-Junnabi WikiShia, An online encyclopedia of the school of Ahl al-Bayt (a)]

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