{
 "id": "group/ghassan",
 "class": "group",
 "slug": "ghassan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "غسان",
  "en": "Ghassan"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ذكر كعب بن مالك أن «ملك غسان» كتب إليه كتاباً في سرقة من حرير أثناء مقاطعة الثلاثة يدعوه إلى اللحاق به.",
  "en": "Ka'b ibn Malik relates that the 'king of Ghassan' wrote him a letter wrapped in a scrap of silk during the boycott of the three, inviting him to join him."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "tribe",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 179",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-7c"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 179"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ورد في رواية كعب أن «ملك غسان» بعث إليه كتاباً مع نبطي من نبط الشام يدعوه إلى اللحاق به. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "في هذه الدفعة",
     "markdown": "الكتاب ونصه ورد كعب عليه في [[event/ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab|حدث الكتاب]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظات المصدر والتمريض",
     "markdown": "- لا يسمي النص الملك ولا ينسب إليه إلا لقب «ملك غسان»؛ فالصفحة صفحة قبيلة/مملكة بحسب المتن لا تحقيق تاريخي (needs_source)."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/ghassan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "In Ka'b's account, \"the king of Ghassan\" sent him a letter with a Nabataean of Syria's Nabataeans inviting him to join him. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "In this batch",
     "markdown": "The letter's text and Ka'b's reply to it are in [[event/ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab|the letter's event]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Source notes and markers of doubt",
     "markdown": "- The text neither names the king nor attributes anything to him but the title \"king of Ghassan\"; this is a tribe/kingdom page per the text, not a historical investigation (needs_source)."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/ghassan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/jabala-ibn-al-ayham",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "group/al-azd",
   "type": "founded_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "جفنة بن عمرو الأزدي أبو ملوك غسان بالشام.",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "صاحب الكتاب",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/the-three-left-behind",
  "person/kaab-ibn-malik",
  "place/medina",
  "polity/ghassanid-kingdom",
  "event/ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab",
  "group/al-azd",
  "person/jabala-ibn-al-ayham"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}