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Amr ibn Amir Muzayqiya

عمرو بن عامر مزيقياء

Amr ibn Amir, called Muzayqiya — last holder of the leadership over Qahtan's sons when the 'Arim flood scattered them through the lands; his stay at the Ghassan water gave the tribe its name, and his years are put at eight hundred 1.

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Pre-Islamic Arabia
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Amr ibn Amir ibn Ma' al-Sama, known as Muzayqiya, to whom leadership passed among the sons of Qahtan when God sent the flood of al-Arim and they scattered through the lands. 2

It is said that when he left Ma'rib he stopped at the water of Ghassan until death overtook him. Al-Mas'udi makes his life eight hundred years: four hundred as a commoner and four hundred as a king. 3

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Imran ibn Amr Muzayqiya· Jafna ibn Amr· Tha'laba ibn Amr Muzayqiya· Tha'laba ibn Amr al-Azdi

People and things also explored

al-Azd· Imran ibn Amr Muzayqiya· Jafna ibn Amr· Tha'laba ibn Amr al-Azdi· al-Sham (Greater Syria)· Medina· Oman· The Ghassanid Kingdom

Sources

  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 425-426, 489
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.425-426
  3. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.489
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al-Azd

A Kahlani Qahtani tribe that migrated from Yemen under Imran ibn Amr Muzayqiya; its branches dispersed to Yathrib (the Aws and Khazraj through Thaʾlaba), Mecca (Khuzaʾa), Oman, and al-Sham (Jafna, ancestor of the Ghassanids).