At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- PoetTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Shamardal ibn Shurayk ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Tha'laba, a poet of the Banu Yarbu'. The source describes him as one of the Kharijites and one of the poets of valour (hamasa) 1.
Dates
The encyclopedia gives his death as 100 AH (about 718 CE). The date in the data is recorded as a commonly transmitted report 2.
The entry needs an additional source for the date of death.
People and things also explored
al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Arab naming of children after plants· The wise sayings attributed to Ali· Poetry attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.196
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Shamardal ibn Shurayk”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shamardal-ibn-shurayk/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.