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Zuhayr ibn Janab al-Kalbi

زهير بن جناب الكلبي

Kalb's Jahili knight — quoted by Sa'sa'a for the definition of the faris, mourning his son 'Amr: 'a rider whose comrades shelter behind a blade flashing like fire' 1.

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Zuhayr ibn Janab al-Kalbi, a pre-Islamic horseman of the Kalb. Sa'sa'a ibn Suhan cited him to Ibn Abbas when describing the horseman, in verses in which he laments his son Amr 2.

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Zuhayr ibn Janab's War on Bakr and Taghlib· Zuhayr ibn Janab's War on Ghatafan's Sanctuary· the wars of Zuhayr ibn Janāb — the ḥaram of Ghaṭafān destroyed, Kulayb and al-Muhalhil taken

People and things also explored

Bakr ibn Wa'il· Banu Taghlib ibn Wa'il· Ghatafan· al-Muhalhil ibn Rabi'a· كليب بن ربيعة· Zuhayr ibn Janab's War on Bakr and Taghlib· Zuhayr ibn Janab's War on Ghatafan's Sanctuary· the wars of Zuhayr ibn Janāb — the ḥaram of Ghaṭafān destroyed, Kulayb and al-Muhalhil taken

Sources

  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 45-46
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.45-46
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Bakr ibn Wa'il

A Rabi'a tribe of Adnan, one of Wa'il's two sons with Taghlib; branches settled Bahrayn and the rest stretched from al-Yamama to Bahrayn, Kazima, the edge of the Iraqi sawad, al-Ubulla and Hit; Banu Shayban of Dhu Qar and Banu Hanifa of al-Yamama belong to it, and its wars with Taghlib are the textbook case of kin rivalry.