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 "id": "person/adi-ibn-hatim",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "adi-ibn-hatim",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عدي بن حاتم",
  "en": "Adi ibn Hatim"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ابن حاتم الطائي الجواد المشهور؛ أسلم سنة 9هـ أو 10هـ وكان نصرانياً، وثبت على إسلامه في الردة وأحضر صدقة قومه إلى أبي بكر، وشهد فتح العراق وصفين مع علي، وسكن الكوفة ومات بعد الستين.",
  "en": "The son of the famously generous Hatim al-Ta'i; he embraced Islam in 9 AH or 10 AH, having been a Christian, stood firm during the apostasy and brought his tribe's alms to Abu Bakr; he took part in the conquest of Iraq and was with Ali at Siffin, settled in Kufa and died after 60 AH."
 },
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 ],
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  "arabia"
 ],
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  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "عدي بن حاتم بن عبد الله بن سعد بن الحشرج بن امرئ القيس بن عدي الطائي"
   },
   {
    "kind": "kunya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أبو طريف"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "مذكور في الإصابة ترجمة رقم 5961 (ص 1014).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "ذُكر في كتب الصحابة؛ يُسجَّل ضمن الإطار السني للمتحف (docs/scope.md)."
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الإصابة في تمييز الصحابة، ترجمة 5961، ص 1014",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "isaba-batch-4"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; read from al-Isaba (column-aware OCR, page 1014, entry 5961)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "[[person/adi-ibn-hatim|عدي بن حاتم]] بن عبد الله الطائي، ابن «الجواد المشهور» حاتم، يكنى أبا طريف. أسلم سنة 9هـ، وقيل: سنة 10هـ، وكان نصرانياً قبل ذلك {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1014}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "إسلامه",
     "markdown": "يروي أبو عبيدة بن حذيفة عن عدي: «لما بُعث النبي كرهته كراهية شديدة»، فانطلق إلى أقصى الأرض مما يلي الروم فكره مكانه أشد، فقال: «لو أتيته، فإن كان كاذباً لم يخف علي، وإن كان صادقاً اتبعته»، فأقبل. فلما قدم المدينة قال له النبي: «يا عدي، أسلم تسلم»، فقال: «إن لي ديناً»، فقال: «أنا أعلم بدينك منك، ألست ترأس قومك؟ ... ألست تأكل المرباع؟ ... فإن ذلك لا يحل لك في دينك» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1015}.\n\nوفي رواية أخرى عن عباد بن حبيش أنه أتى النبي في المسجد بغير أمان ولا كتاب، فأخذ بيده وسأله: «هل تعلم من إله سوى الله؟ ... هل تعلم شيئاً أكبر من الله؟»، قال: لا، فقال النبي: «إن اليهود مغضوب عليهم، وإن النصارى ضالون» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1015}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في الردة وبعدها",
     "markdown": "ثبت على إسلامه في الردة وأحضر صدقة قومه إلى أبي بكر، وشهد فتح العراق ثم سكن [[place/kufa|الكوفة]]، وشهد صفين مع [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|علي]]، ومات بعد الستين وقد أسنّ {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1014}. ويروي الشعبي أن عمر قال له: «آمنت إذ كفروا، وعرفت إذ أنكروا، ووفيت إذ غدروا، وأقبلت إذ أدبروا، وإن أول صدقة بيّضت وجوه أصحاب رسول الله صدقة طيّ» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1015}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عمره",
     "markdown": "قال خليفة: بلغ عشرين ومئة سنة، وقال أبو حاتم السجستاني: بلغ مئة وثمانين {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1014}. وقال عدي: «ما أقيمت الصلاة منذ أسلمت إلا وأنا على وضوء» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1014}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حديث الخيط الأبيض",
     "markdown": "يذكر ابن حجر أن في الصحيحين قصة في حمله قوله تعالى [[passage/quran-2-187|البقرة 187]] على ظاهره، وقول النبي له: «إنك لعريض الوساد» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1015}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/adi-ibn-hatim",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[person/adi-ibn-hatim|Adi ibn Hatim]] ibn Abdullah al-Ta'i, son of the famed generous Hatim, kunya Abu Tarif. He became Muslim in year 9 AH — or year 10, it is said — having been Christian before {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1014}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His conversion",
     "markdown": "Abu Ubayda ibn Hudhayfa relates from Adi: \"when the Prophet was sent I hated him with a severe hatred\", so he went to the furthest land on the Roman side and hated his place more; he said: \"if I went to him — if he is a liar it will not escape me, and if truthful I will follow him\" — so he came. When he reached Medina the Prophet told him: \"Adi, become Muslim and be safe\"; he said: \"I have a religion\"; he said: \"I know your religion better than you — do you not head your people? ... do you not take the quarter-tribute? ... that is not lawful for you in your religion\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1015}.\n\nIn another account from Abbad ibn Hubaysh, he came to the Prophet in the mosque with no safe-conduct and no letter; he took his hand and asked him: \"do you know of any god besides God? ... do you know of anything greater than God?\" He said no; the Prophet said: \"the Jews are those angered against, and the Christians are astray\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1015}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the Ridda and after",
     "markdown": "He stood firm in his Islam through the Ridda, brought his people's alms to Abu Bakr, witnessed the conquest of Iraq, then settled in [[place/kufa|Kufa]], witnessed Siffin with [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|Ali]], and died past sixty, well advanced {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1014}. Al-Sha'bi relates that Umar told him: \"you believed when they disbelieved, recognised when they denied, were loyal when they betrayed, and came forward when they drew back — and the first alms to whiten the faces of the Messenger of God's companions was the alms of Tayy\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1015}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His age",
     "markdown": "Khalifa said he reached one hundred twenty; Abu Hatim al-Sijistani said one hundred eighty {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1014}. Adi said: \"no prayer has been called since I became Muslim without me being in ablution\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1014}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The white thread hadith",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hajar mentions that the two Sahihs carry the story of his taking God's saying [[passage/quran-2-187|al-Baqara 187]] literally, and the Prophet's saying to him: \"your pillow is indeed wide\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1015}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/adi-ibn-hatim",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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