{
 "id": "person/al-nadr-ibn-al-harith",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "al-nadr-ibn-al-harith",
 "label": {
  "en": "al-Nadr ibn al-Harith",
  "ar": "النضر بن الحارث"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A Qurashi who had traveled to al-Hira and returned with Persian tales of kings and heroes, offering them against the Prophet's recitation — captured at Badr and executed on the march home.",
  "ar": "قرشي سافر إلى الحيرة وعاد بأخبار الفرس في الملوك والأبطال يعرضها بديلًا عن تلاوة النبي — أُسر ببدر وأُعدم في طريق العودة."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "anti-muslim-hatred",
  "literature",
  "battles"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 575.0007871482644,
  "latest": 624.2475204829352
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0575~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0624-03",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "Taken captive at Badr and executed on the return, March 624 CE.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
    "source/watt-1953-mecca"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "النضر بن الحارث بن علقمة العبدري"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0575~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0624-03",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "Taken captive at Badr and executed on the return, March 624 CE.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
    "source/watt-1953-mecca"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "opponent",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0613~"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Rival storyteller who held audiences against the Prophet's; the tafsir tradition links him with the verses about 'tales of the ancients'.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "military-opponent",
    "toward": "group/early-muslims",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0624"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Marched with the Meccan army; captured at Badr and executed.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "documented",
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1953-mecca"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "النضر بن الحارث قرشي سافر إلى الحيرة وعاد بأخبار الفرس في الملوك — يعرض حكاياته في مقابل تلاوة النبي. أُسر ببدر فأُعدم في طريق العودة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "حيث كان النبي يتلو كان النضر يقصّ الدورات الفارسية — رستم وأسفنديار — ليمسك مجالس قريش. ويربط تراث التفسير اسمه بالآيات فيمن يشتري «لهو الحديث» ليضلّ {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nوفي بدر قاتل في صف مكة فأُسر؛ وكـ[[person/uqba-ibn-abi-muayt|عقبة بن أبي معيط]] كان أحد أسيرين أُعدما في العودة — تقول الرواية بأمر النبي عن سنيّ سخريته {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume} {cite:watt-1953-mecca}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "هو راوي القصة المنافس: رجلان يرويان حكايتي الجزيرة في السوق نفسها، حتى حسمت المعركة بينهما. ويعرض المعرض مصيره بلا تعليق — فالحرب الأولى خيضت في الكلام قبل أن تخاض في الدم."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كان النضر يحكي مغامرات الفرس منافسًا تلاوة النبي. وبعد المعركة كان واحدًا من أسيرين لم يُعفَ عنهما."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-nadr-ibn-al-harith",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Al-Nadr ibn al-Harith was a Qurashi who had traveled to al-Hira and returned with the Persians' tales of kings — offering his storytelling against the Prophet's recitation. Captured at Badr, he was executed on the march home."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Where the Prophet recited, al-Nadr recited the Persian cycles — Rustam and Isfandiyar — to hold Quraysh's audiences. The tafsir tradition links him to the verses about those who buy \"idle tales\" to lead people astray {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nAt Badr he fought on the Meccan side and was captured; like [[person/uqba-ibn-abi-muayt|Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt]], he was one of two prisoners put to death on the return — the tradition says at the Prophet's order, for his years of mockery {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume} {cite:watt-1953-mecca}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "He is the story's rival narrator: two men telling Arabia's two stories in the same marketplace, until battle decided between them. The museum displays his fate without editorializing — the early war was fought in words before it was fought in blood."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Al-Nadr told Persian adventure stories to compete with the Prophet's recitation. After the battle he was one of two prisoners who were not spared."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-nadr-ibn-al-harith",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 20,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abu-bakr",
  "person/abu-lahab",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/hamza",
  "person/heraclius",
  "person/hind-bint-utba",
  "person/khosrow-ii",
  "person/muhammad"
 ],
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  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/badr",
   "type": "died_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/banu-abd-al-dar",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/quraysh",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad",
   "type": "persecuted",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0613~"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0622"
   },
   "note": "Among those who harassed and mocked the Prophet in the Meccan years.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-badr",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "meccan-side",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/badr-prisoners",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "أُعدم بالصفراء بيد علي",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/hijra-departure",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "من الأحد عشر رئيساً",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/plot-of-dar-al-nadwa",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "حضر عن بني عبد الدار",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-31-6",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true,
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    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
   ]
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 ],
 "related": [
  "person/uqba-ibn-abi-muayt",
  "person/abu-jahl",
  "person/umayya-ibn-khalaf",
  "person/musab-ibn-umayr",
  "event/battle-of-badr",
  "person/suhayl-ibn-amr",
  "person/umar-ibn-al-khattab",
  "person/muhammad"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}