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 "id": "person/amr-ibn-madikarib",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "amr-ibn-madikarib",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عمرو بن معد يكرب",
  "en": "Amr ibn Ma'dikarib"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الشاعر الفارس المشهور من زبيد؛ قدم على النبي في وفد زبيد فأسلم في رواية ابن إسحاق، وارتد بعد وفاة النبي ثم أُسر وعاد إلى الإسلام، وأبلى في القادسية؛ واختُلف هل لقي النبي.",
  "en": "The famous poet and horseman of Zubayd; in Ibn Ishaq's account he came to the Prophet with the delegation of Zubayd and embraced Islam, he left Islam after the Prophet's death, was captured and returned to it, and fought well at al-Qadisiyya; whether he met the Prophet is disputed."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "عمرو بن معد يكرب بن عبد الله بن عمرو الزبيدي"
   },
   {
    "kind": "kunya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أبو ثور"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "مذكور في الإصابة ترجمة رقم 6697 (ص 1130).",
    "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 6697، ص 1130",
   "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 1130, entry 6697)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "[[person/amr-ibn-madikarib|عمرو بن معد يكرب]] الزبيدي، «الشاعر الفارس المشهور»، يكنى أبا ثور. قال ابن ماكولا: له صحبة ورواية، وقال أبو نعيم: له الوقائع المذكورة في الجاهلية، وله في الإسلام بالقادسية بلاء حسن {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1130}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفد زبيد",
     "markdown": "قال ابن إسحاق: قدم عمرو بن معد يكرب على رسول الله في وفد زبيد فأسلم، وله قصة مع قيس بن المكشوح المرادي {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1130}. وفي رواية ابن سعد عن الواقدي أن عمراً قال لقيس لما بلغهما أمر النبي: «قد ذُكر لنا أن رجلاً من قريش يقال له محمد قد خرج بالحجاز يقول إنه نبي، فانطلق بنا إليه حتى نعلم علمه، فإن كان نبياً فلن يخفى علينا»، فأتى قيس فركب عمرو إلى المدينة فنزل على [[person/sad-ibn-ubada|سعد بن عبادة]] فأكرمه، فأسلم ورجع إلى قومه مسلماً مطيعاً {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1130}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الردة",
     "markdown": "لما مات النبي ارتد عمرو، كما يذكر سيف في كتاب الردة، وأن المهاجر بن أبي أمية أسره فأرسله إلى أبي بكر فعاود الإسلام {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1130}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما اختُلف فيه",
     "markdown": "- هل وفد على النبي: يقول الخطيب في «المتفق والمفترق»: «يقال: إن له وفادة»، وقيل: لم يلق رسول الله، وإنما قدم إلى المدينة بعد وفاته وحضر القادسية وأبلى فيها {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1130}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "من أخباره",
     "markdown": "يروي ابن حجر في مناقب الشافعي أن النبي وجّه علياً وخالد بن سعيد إلى اليمن، فبلغ عمرو بن معد يكرب ما قيل في جماعة من قومه، فقال لهم: «دعوني آت هؤلاء القوم، فإني لم أسمُ لأحد قط إلا هابني»، فلما دنا منهما قال: «أنا أبو ثور، أنا عمرو بن معد يكرب»، فابتدراه، كل منهما يقول: «خلني وإياه»، فقال عمرو: «العرب تفزع بي، وأراني لهؤلاء جزراً»، فانصرف {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1130}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/amr-ibn-madikarib",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[person/amr-ibn-madikarib|Amr ibn Ma'dikarib]] al-Zubaydi, \"the famous knight-poet\", kunya Abu Thawr. Ibn Makula said he has companionship and transmission; Abu Nu'aym said he has the famed Jahiliyya exploits and a fine showing at al-Qadisiyya in Islam {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1130}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Zubayd delegation",
     "markdown": "Ibn Ishaq said Amr ibn Ma'dikarib came to the Messenger of God in Zubayd's delegation and became Muslim — he has a story with Qays ibn Makshuh al-Muradi {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1130}. In Ibn Sa'd's account from al-Waqidi, when the Prophet's affair reached them, Amr said to Qays: \"it has been mentioned to us that a man of Quraysh called Muhammad has come out in the Hijaz saying he is a prophet — let us go to him until we learn his matter, for if he is a prophet it will not escape us.\" Qays came, and Amr rode to Medina and alighted on [[person/sad-ibn-ubada|Sa'd ibn Ubada]], who honoured him; he became Muslim and returned to his people a Muslim obedient {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1130}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Ridda",
     "markdown": "When the Prophet died Amr apostatised, as Sayf mentions in the Book of the Ridda; al-Muhajir ibn Abi Umayya captured him and sent him to Abu Bakr, and he returned to Islam {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1130}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "What is disputed",
     "markdown": "- Whether he came as a delegate to the Prophet: al-Khatib says in al-Muttafaq wa-l-Muftaraq \"it is said he came on a delegation\"; others say he never met the Messenger of God, only coming to Medina after his death and attending al-Qadisiyya where he fought gallantly {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1130}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Of his reports",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hajar relates in the Manaqib al-Shafi'i that the Prophet dispatched Ali and Khalid ibn Sa'id to Yemen; word of what had been said against a group of his people reached Amr ibn Ma'dikarib, who told them: \"let me go to these men — I have never named myself to anyone but he feared me.\" When he drew near them he cried: \"I am Abu Thawr, I am Amr ibn Ma'dikarib!\" Both rushed at him, each saying \"leave him and me\"; Amr said: \"the Arabs take refuge in me, yet to these two I seem a morsel\" — and turned back {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1130}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/amr-ibn-madikarib",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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  "event/abu-quhafa-conversion",
  "event/abu-sufyan-conversion",
  "event/ali-expedition-to-al-fuls",
  "event/bayat-al-ridwan",
  "event/conversion-of-umayr-ibn-wahb",
  "event/delegation-of-abd-al-qays",
  "event/delegation-of-banu-hanifa",
  "event/delegation-of-hamdan"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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 }
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