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 "id": "person/abu-haritha-ibn-alqama",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "abu-haritha-ibn-alqama",
 "label": {
  "en": "Abu Haritha ibn Alqama",
  "ar": "أبو حارثة بن علقمة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Bishop of Najran and its religious leader, one of the three chiefs who headed the sixty-man Christian delegation to Medina in 9 AH that debated Jesus and received the Prophet's offer of mubahala.",
  "ar": "أسقف نجران وصاحب زعامتها الدينية، وأحد الثلاثة الذين قادوا وفدها الستين إلى المدينة سنة 9هـ حين جادلوا في أمر عيسى فدعاهم النبي إلى المباهلة."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "islam-and-christianity"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أبو حارثة بن علقمة"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "theologian"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "interlocutor",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0631~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "زعيم وفد نجران الديني مع العاقب والسيد.",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "christian",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "أسقف نجران كما في مصادر السيرة.",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
     "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/ibn-hisham-sira",
   "source/zad-al-maad"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 440-454 (batch 22)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أسقف [[place/najran|نجران]] وصاحب زعامتها الدينية، أحد الثلاثة الذين قادوا وفدها الستين إلى المدينة سنة 9هـ {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص450}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "خبره",
     "markdown": "كان أبو حارثة بن علقمة أسقف نجران وكانت إليه الزعامة الدينية والقيادة الروحانية في وفد أهلها الستين إلى النبي سنة 9هـ {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص450}. وكان الوفد يقوده ثلاثة: العاقب عبد المسيح صاحب الإمارة والحكومة، والسيد الأيهم صاحب الأمور الثقافية والسياسية، وأبو حارثة صاحب الدين {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص450}. وسأل الوفد النبي عما يقول في عيسى فامتنعوا عن الإسلام، فدعاهم إلى المباهلة فطلبوا الصلح فصالحهم على الجزية والذمة {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص451}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كان أبو حارثة كبير علماء النصارى في نجران، وجاء في وفدهم يسأل النبي ويناقشه ثم اصطلحوا معه."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abu-haritha-ibn-alqama",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "The bishop of [[place/najran|Najran]] and holder of its religious leadership, one of the three who led its sixty-man delegation to Medina in year 9 AH {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 450}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His account",
     "markdown": "Abu Haritha ibn Alqama was Najran's bishop, holding the religious leadership and spiritual guidance within its people's sixty-man delegation to the Prophet in year 9 AH {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 450}. The delegation was led by three: al-Aqib Abd al-Masih for command and government, al-Sayyid al-Ayham for cultural and political affairs, and Abu Haritha for religion {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 450}. The delegation asked the Prophet what he said of Jesus and held back from Islam; he called them to mutual imprecation, they asked instead for peace, and he made peace with them on jizya and dhimma {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 451}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Abu Haritha was the greatest of Najran's Christian scholars; he came in their delegation asking the Prophet and debating him, and they made peace with him."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abu-haritha-ibn-alqama",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/najran",
   "type": "lived_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/delegation-of-najran",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "الأسقف زعيم الدين",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/massacre-of-najran",
  "person/faymiyun",
  "event/delegation-of-najran",
  "event/year-of-delegations",
  "person/abu-ubayda-ibn-al-jarrah",
  "person/ali-ibn-abi-talib",
  "person/fatima",
  "person/hasan-ibn-ali"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}