At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
Maytham ibn Yahya al-Asadi by clientage, known as Maytham al-Tammar, was a slave of a woman of the Banu Asad; Ali ibn Abi Talib bought him from her and freed him, and he remained devoted to him, settling at Kufa afterwards. 1
Its governor Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad imprisoned him for his attachment to Ali, then had him crucified on a trunk, whereupon he kept recounting the merits of the Banu Hashim; told that the slave was disgracing them, Ibn Ziyad ordered him bridled — making him, as al-Zirikli records, the first man bridled in Islam — and then pierced him with a spear, ten days before al-Husayn's coming to Iraq, in 60 AH (680 CE). 1
Connections
- Died in
- Kufa
- Member of
- The Companions
People and things also explored
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud· Abu Juhayfa al-Suwa'i· al-Mustawrad ibn Shaddad· Amr ibn al-Ahwas al-Bariqi· Dirar ibn al-Azwar al-Asadi· Hashim ibn Utba al-Mirqal· Hilal ibn Amir al-Muzani· Khabbab ibn al-Aratt
Sources
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli , v.7 p.336
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Maytham al-Tammar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/maytham-al-tammar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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