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Barkhya ibn Akhbya

برخيا بن أخبيا

The Judahite prophet commanded to send Bukhtanassar against 'the Arabs whose houses have no bolts' — the king answered he had been seeing the same command in dreams for seven nights 1.

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A prophet of the tribe of Judah son of Israel son of Isaac son of Abraham, in the age of the Banu Hadur. 2

Al-Mas'udi relates that God revealed to him that he should go to Nebuchadnezzar and order him to raid the Arabs whose houses had no locks. He went to him, and the king said: "You have spoken truly; for seven nights I have been ordered in my sleep to do what you mentioned." He marched against the Banu Hadur and destroyed them. 2

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  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 464
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.464
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