the day of Khazāz — all Maʿadd under Kulayb break the Yemen host

يوم خزاز — اجتماع معد على كليب

470 CE

Khazaz

A Yemeni king held part of a Maʿadd embassy hostage, demanding their chiefs come covenant obedience or the captives die. Kulayb ibn Rabīʿa summoned Rabīʿa and all Maʿadd gathered to him — one of only three men ever so followed — with al-Saffāḥ al-Taghlibī leading the van and ordered to light signal fires on Mount Khazāz, by Ṭakhfā on the Basra–Mecca road: two fires if the enemy closed. When the fires rose, Kulayb brought the host and at Khazāz they broke Madhḥij and scattered the Yemen host — though the genealogists said no one knows who held the chief command that day, for ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm never claimed it in his boast though his mother was Kulayb's daughter ¹.