{
 "id": "person/abbas-ibn-mirdas",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "abbas-ibn-mirdas",
 "label": {
  "en": "Abbas ibn Mirdas al-Sulami",
  "ar": "العباس بن مرداس السلمي"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A knight, poet and chieftain of Banu Sulaym; he embraced Islam prior to the conquest of Mecca after a miraculous encounter with his idol Dimar, led the Sulaym contingent at the Conquest and Hunayn, and was renowned for his stirring war poetry.",
  "ar": "فارس وشاعر وسيد من بني سليم؛ أسلم قبيل فتح مكة بعد مناداة صنمه ضمار من جوفه، وقاد فرسان سليم في الفتح وحنين، واشتُهر بمطولاته الشعرية في الفخر والحماسة."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "literature",
  "battles",
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "العباس بن مرداس بن أبي عامر السلمي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion",
   "poet",
   "tribal-leader"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "أسلم قبل فتح مكة بعد سماعه صوتاً من جوف صنمه ضمار يدعوه إلى التوحيد (ابن هشام 4/69–70).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "شهد فتح مكة وحنين قائداً وشاعراً في بني سليم.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0629~"
    },
    "note": "أسلم قبيل فتح مكة."
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 69–70, 102–112",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-2b"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 69–112"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "فارس وشاعر وسيد من أشراف [[group/banu-sulaym|بني سليم]]؛ أسلم قبيل فتح مكة إثر حادثة عجائبية ناداه فيها صنمه ضمار من جوفه داعيًا إلى التوحيد، وشهد فتح مكة و[[event/battle-of-hunayn|غزوة حنين]] قائدًا لفرسان سليم، واشتهر بمطولاته في حنين والفخر {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/69-70, 102-112}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "إسلامه ومشاركاته",
     "markdown": "روى ابن هشام في حديث إسلامه أنه كان يعبد صنمًا يقال له ضمار، فسمع صوتًا من جوفه يقول: «قُل للقبائل من سليم كلها / أودى ضمارُ وعاش أهل المسجد»، فحرق صنمه ولحق بالنبي فأسلم {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/69-70}. وقاد بني سليم في فتح مكة وفي حنين، وصمد فرسانه عند انكشاف الجيوش {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/102}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "شعره",
     "markdown": "أنشد في حنين مطولات شعرية طويلة يفخر فيها بثبات المسلمين وبلاء قومه ويرد على شعراء هوازن، ومنها قصيدته المشهورة: «تقضى أمور وتأتي أمور / وتجفو أناس وتبقى دهور» {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/102-112}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "فارس وشاعر عربي شجاع، ترك عبادة الأصنام وأسلم بحماسة، وقاد فرسان قومه في معارك كبرى وألف قصائد حماسية خالدة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abbas-ibn-mirdas",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "A horseman, poet and chief among the nobles of [[group/banu-sulaym|Banu Sulaym]]; he became Muslim shortly before the conquest of Mecca after a marvellous incident in which his idol Dimar called to him from its core, summoning to monotheism. He witnessed the conquest of Mecca and the [[event/battle-of-hunayn|battle of Hunayn]] commanding Sulaym's cavalry, and is famed for his long odes at Hunayn and in boastful verse {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/69-70, 102-112}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His conversion and campaigns",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hisham relates in the account of his conversion that he worshipped an idol called Dimar, and heard a voice from within it say: \"tell the tribes of all Sulaym — Dimar has perished and the people of the mosque live\"; so he burned his idol, joined the Prophet and became Muslim {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/69-70}. He led Banu Sulaym at the conquest of Mecca and at Hunayn, where his horsemen held firm when the armies broke {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/102}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His poetry",
     "markdown": "At Hunayn he recited long odes glorying in the Muslims' steadfastness and his people's valour, answering Hawazin's poets; among them his famous ode: \"matters are decreed and matters come / people turn away and ages remain\" {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/102-112}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "A brave Arab horseman and poet who left idol-worship and became Muslim with passion, led his people's cavalry in great battles, and composed immortal martial odes."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abbas-ibn-mirdas",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/banu-sulaym",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "work/abbas-ibn-mirdas-hunayn",
   "type": "authored",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-hunayn",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "sulaym-commander-and-poet",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/hawazin-delegation-and-amnesty",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "initially-refused-then-overridden-by-banu-sulaym",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/battle-of-hunayn",
  "person/malik-ibn-awf",
  "work/abbas-ibn-mirdas-hunayn",
  "event/hawazin-delegation-and-amnesty",
  "person/muhammad",
  "group/hawazin",
  "group/thaqif",
  "person/al-aqra-ibn-habis"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}