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هلال بن عقة النمري

هلال بن عقة النمري

c. 633 CE · c. 12 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

In al-Baladhuri: Hilal ibn Uqqa ibn Qays ibn al-Bushr al-Namiri, over al-Namar ibn Saqit at Ayn al-Tamr; he gathered against Khalid and fought him, was overcome, killed and crucified — al-Kalbi: it was Uqqa ibn Qays himself over them that day.

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Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib · Abdullah ibn Abbas · Abdullah ibn Mas'ud · Abdullah ibn Salam · Abu Bakr al-Siddiq

Overview

Hilal ibn Uqqa ibn Qays ibn al-Bishr al-Namiri. Al-Baladhuri reports that he was in charge of the Namir under Ibn Saqit at Ayn al-Tamr, and he gathered men for Khalid and fought him (the siege of Ayn al-Tamr). Khalid overcame him, killed him and crucified him. 1

Al-Baladhuri, citing Ibn al-Kalbi, reports that the man in charge of them on that day was Uqqa ibn Qays ibn al-Bishr himself. His death is dated to 12 AH; the conversion to the Gregorian calendar is derived. 1

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The Siege of Ayn al-Tamr and Its Church Captives

People and things also explored

The mawali (clients)· Abu Farwa Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Aswad· حمران بن أبان التمري· Khalid ibn al-Walid· مرة أبو عبيد· نصير أبو موسى بن نصير· سيرين أبو ابن سيرين· عمير بن رئاب السهمي

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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The mawali (clients)

In al-Baladhuri's Ayn al-Tamr captives, the model of the mawali: captives freed by their patrons whose clientage then attached to them — as Humran ibn Aban, al-Musayyib ibn Najaba's man whom Uthman bought and freed to become Uthman's mawla; Sirin and his brothers, mawali of Anas ibn Malik; Yasar, grandfather of Muhammad ibn Ishaq, mawla of Qays ibn Makhrama ibn al-Muttalib; Nusayr, Musa ibn Nusayr's father, mawla of the Umayyads; and Abu Farwa, grandfather of al-Rabi' ibn Yunus al-Mansur's minister — bought by Na'im al-Asadi then by Uthman for grave-digging.