the wars of Zuhayr ibn Janāb — the ḥaram of Ghaṭafān destroyed, Kulayb and al-Muhalhil taken

Zuhayr ibn Janab al-Kalbi was the man around whom the Quda'a tribes gathered. He was called "al-Kahin" (the soothsayer) for the soundness of his judgement. He lived two hundred and fifty years, or it is said four hundred and fifty, and fought two hundred battles in that time. He desecrated a sanctuary that the Banu Baghid of Ghatafan had built on the model of the sanctuary of Mecca, and killed a horseman inside it. He fought Bakr and Taghlib while collecting tribute for Abraha. Ibn Ziyaba al-Taymi stabbed him as he slept, with a thrust that passed through to his back; he kept silent about the wound and made his death appear, and they buried wrapped garments. Then he gathered his people, defeated Bakr and Taghlib, and captured Kulayb and Muhalhil, the two sons of Rabi'a. His sister warned him about the army of Banu al-Qayn by sending him two bundles: one held sand and the other thorns. ¹