At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
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Overview
Hammam ibn Ghalib al-Farazdaq, a poet of the Umayyad period. Al-Baladhuri reports that he praised the river al-Mubarak, which Khalid ibn Abd Allah al-Qasri dug. 1
In Muruj al-Dhahab
Al-Mas'udi reports that the king of the Romans wrote to al-Walid when he demolished the church, and al-Farazdaq answered him with a verse of the Qur'an. 2 He also reports verses of his in elegy for Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz. 3
The data ascribes to him a work, his verses on al-Aqra ibn Habis. 4
Connections
- Authored
- Al-Farazdaq's verses on al-Aqra' ibn Habis and the captives of Banu al-Anbar
- Related to
- صعصعة بن ناجية
- Participated in
- al-Mubarak Canal and the Tigris Pontoon
People and things also explored
The killing of Tamim at al-Mushaqqar· Uyayna ibn Hisn's raid on Banu Tamim· Banu al-Anbar of Tamim· Banu Tamim· al-Aqra' ibn Habis al-Tamimi· هشام بن عبد الملك· Khalid ibn Abdallah al-Qasri· Nahr al-Mubarak
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.157
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.184
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936)
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
- al-Nuwayri, Nihayat al-Arab fi Funun al-Adab, vol. 3 (scan)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Farazdaq”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/farazdaq/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.