حروب زهير بن جناب الكلبي — تعطيل حرم غطفان وأسر كليب ومهلهل

حروب زهير بن جناب الكلبي — تعطيل حرم غطفان وأسر كليب ومهلهل

500 عیسوی

Zuhayr ibn Janāb al-Kalbī — called «the soothsayer» for his judgment, said to have lived 250 years (some say 450) and fought two hundred battles — was one of the few all Quḍāʿa obeyed. When Banū Baghīḍ built a ḥaram on Mecca's model he destroyed it and killed a horseman inside it, then freed the captives and returned the women. Taxing Bakr and Taghlib for Abraha, he was stabbed through in his sleep by Ibn Ziyāba al-Tamīmī; he lay still, had his men fake his funeral with a corpse of folded clothes, then mustered and routed both tribes — Kulayb and al-Muhalhil, the two sons of Rabīʿa, were taken prisoner and their knights slaughtered. His sister's gifts of a bag of sand and a bag of thorns warned him of Banū'l-Qayn's coming ¹.