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 "id": "person/kaab-ibn-malik",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "kaab-ibn-malik",
 "label": {
  "en": "Ka'b ibn Malik al-Ansari",
  "ar": "كعب بن مالك الأنصاري"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "One of the three chief poets of the Prophet from the Ansar (Banu Salama of Khazraj); he witnessed the Second Pledge of al-Aqaba, fought in the early campaigns, defended the community with his eloquent verses at Hunayn, and was later one of the three whose repentance at Tabuk was accepted.",
  "ar": "شاعر رسول الله وأحد فرسان الأنصار من بني سلمة من الخزرج؛ شهد العقبة الثانية والمشاهد، ونافح عن الإسلام بقصائده في حنين ومسير الطائف، وهو أحد الثلاثة الذين خُلّفوا في تبوك فتيب عليهم."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "literature",
  "battles"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "كعب بن مالك بن أبي كعب بن القين الخزرجي الأنصاري"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion",
   "poet"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "شاعر الرسول وشهد المشاهد معه (ابن هشام 4/120).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "صحابي أنصاري جليل."
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 120–124, 175–181",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-2b"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 120–124"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أحد شعراء الرسول الثلاثة وفارس من فرسان الأنصار من بني سلمة من [[group/khazraj|الخزرج]]؛ شهد بيعة العقبة الثانية والمشاهد، ونافح عن الإسلام بقصائده في [[event/battle-of-hunayn|حنين]] و[[event/siege-of-taif|حصار الطائف]]، وهو أحد الثلاثة الذين تيب عليهم في تبوك {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/120-124}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "شعره في حنين والطائف",
     "markdown": "قال كعب بن مالك في يوم حنين قصيدته المشهورة التي يفتتحها: «وقائلة ألا تبكي أخاها / إذا عبرت وحُق لها البكاء»، يصف فيها بطولات المسلمين واندحار حشود الشرك وهدم حصون الطائف ومناجزة ثقيف {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/120-124}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في غزوة تبوك والثلاثة المخلفين",
     "markdown": "تخلف عن تبوك «من غير شك ولا نفاق» بحسب ابن إسحاق، فكان أحد [[event/the-three-left-behind|الثلاثة الذين خُلّفوا]] مع [[person/murara-ibn-al-rabi|مرارة بن الربيع]] و[[person/hilal-ibn-umayya|هلال بن أمية]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175} وروى قصته بنفسه بإسناد ابن إسحاق عن الزهري في [[work/kaab-ibn-malik-account-of-tabuk|حديثه]]: تأخره عن التجهز ([[event/kaab-ibn-malik-delays-his-preparations|الحدث]])، وصدقه مع النبي ([[event/kaab-tells-the-prophet-the-truth|الحدث]])، والمقاطعة خمسين ليلة ([[event/boycott-of-the-three|الحدث]])، ثم قبول توبته ([[event/repentance-of-the-three-accepted|الحدث]]) ونذره الصدق ([[event/kaab-offers-his-wealth-and-vows-truthfulness|الحدث]]). {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175-181}\n\nوذكر في روايته أنه شهد العقبة مع النبي حين تواثقوا على الإسلام، وأنه تخلف عن بدر وحدها قبل تبوك. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "شاعر النبي الصادق من أهل المدينة المنورة، كان يدافع عن الحق بشعره الجميل وفصاحته البليغة وشهد مع النبي أهم المواقف."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kaab-ibn-malik",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "One of the Messenger's three poets, a knight of the Ansar's knights, of Banu Salama of [[group/khazraj|the Khazraj]]; he witnessed the second Aqaba pledge and the battles, defended Islam with his poems at [[event/battle-of-hunayn|Hunayn]] and the [[event/siege-of-taif|siege of Ta'if]], and is one of the three who were reprieved at Tabuk {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/120-124}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His verse at Hunayn and Ta'if",
     "markdown": "On the day of Hunayn Ka'b ibn Malik spoke his famous poem opening: \"and one said — will you not weep for your brother / when they passed by, and weeping was her due\", describing in it the Muslims' feats, the rout of the hosts of shirk, the razing of Ta'if's strongholds and the standing up to Thaqif {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/120-124}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the Tabuk expedition and the three left behind",
     "markdown": "He stayed behind from Tabuk \"without doubt or hypocrisy\" per Ibn Ishaq, and became one of [[event/the-three-left-behind|the three left behind]] with [[person/murara-ibn-al-rabi|Murara ibn al-Rabi']] and [[person/hilal-ibn-umayya|Hilal ibn Umayya]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175} He told his story himself in Ibn Ishaq's chain from al-Zuhri in [[work/kaab-ibn-malik-account-of-tabuk|his account]]: his delay in preparing ([[event/kaab-ibn-malik-delays-his-preparations|the event]]), his truthfulness with the Prophet ([[event/kaab-tells-the-prophet-the-truth|the event]]), the fifty nights' boycott ([[event/boycott-of-the-three|the event]]), then the acceptance of his repentance ([[event/repentance-of-the-three-accepted|the event]]) and his vow of truthfulness ([[event/kaab-offers-his-wealth-and-vows-truthfulness|the event]]). {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175-181}\n\nIn his account he mentions that he witnessed Aqaba with the Prophet when they pledged on Islam, and that before Tabuk he had only stayed behind from Badr. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "The Prophet's truthful poet, of Medina's people; he defended the truth with his fine verse and eloquent tongue, and witnessed with the Prophet the greatest stands."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kaab-ibn-malik",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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   "type": "parent_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "«أن أباه عبد الله... سمعت أبي كعب بن مالك»",
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   "to": "event/repentance-of-the-three-accepted",
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   "to": "event/ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab",
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   "inverse": false,
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   "to": "event/kaab-and-abu-qatada-at-the-garden-wall",
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   "to": "event/kaab-ibn-malik-delays-his-preparations",
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   "to": "event/order-to-the-three-to-separate-from-their-wives",
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   "to": "event/uhud-withdrawal-to-shib",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "أول من عرف النبي ونادى به من بعيد",
   "sources": [
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  "person/muhammad",
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