{
 "id": "person/dihya-al-kalbi",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "dihya-al-kalbi",
 "label": {
  "en": "Dihya al-Kalbi",
  "ar": "دحية الكلبي"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A handsome and noble Companion from Banu Kalb; Gabriel frequently appeared in his likeness; chosen by the Prophet as his diplomatic envoy to Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium; later fought in the conquest of Syria.",
  "ar": "صحابي جليل من سادات كلب وقضاعة، كان من أحسن الناس وجهاً وصورة وكان جبريل  ينزل في صورته كثيراً؛ اختاره النبي سفيراً حاملاً كتابه إلى هرقل قيصر الروم، وشهد اليرموك وفتوح الشام وتوفي في خلافة معاوية."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia",
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "دحية بن خليفة بن فروة الكلبي القضاعي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion",
   "diplomat"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0625~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "official",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0628"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "سفير النبي إلى هرقل قيصر الروم (الرحيق ص356).",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
     "source/sahih-al-bukhari"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0625~"
    },
    "note": "صحابي جليل وسفير النبي."
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/sahih-al-bukhari",
   "source/zad-al-maad"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 356–358"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/dihya-al-kalbi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/dihya-al-kalbi",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/medina",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/letters-to-rulers-and-kings",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "سفير النبي إلى هرقل",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/sahih-al-bukhari"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/muhammad",
  "event/letters-to-rulers-and-kings",
  "place/medina",
  "event/conversion-of-umayr-ibn-wahb",
  "event/delegation-of-abd-al-qays",
  "event/delegation-of-banu-hanifa",
  "event/delegation-of-hamdan",
  "event/delegation-of-thaqif"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}