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 "id": "person/suhayl-ibn-amr",
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 "slug": "suhayl-ibn-amr",
 "label": {
  "en": "Suhayl ibn Amr",
  "ar": "سهيل بن عمرو"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Quraysh's orator and spokesman — the diplomat who faced Muhammad across the table at Hudaybiyya — who converted at the conquest and died a Muslim in the plague of Amwas.",
  "ar": "خطيب قريش ولسانها — الدبلوماسي الذي جلس في مفاوضة الحديبية في مقابل محمد — وأسلم يوم الفتح ومات مسلمًا في طاعون عمواس."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "peace-making-and-coexistence",
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 570.0013689535035,
  "latest": 639.99869949414
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0570~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0639~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Died in the plague of Amwas, ~18 AH.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "سهيل بن عمرو العامري"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0570~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0639~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Died in the plague of Amwas, ~18 AH.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "politician"
  ],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "opponent",
    "toward": "group/early-muslims",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0624"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Captured at Badr and ransomed; later Quraysh's spokesman and treaty negotiator.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Converted at the conquest of Mecca; tradition records the Prophet predicting that Suhayl would yet stand in a place that would gladden the Muslims.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0639"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "The tradition remembers him delivering the eulogy oration in Mecca at the news of the Prophet's death.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "documented",
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/watt-1956-medina"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "كان سهيل بن عمرو خطيب قريش — اللسان المبعوث للتفاوض. في الحديبية جلس في مقابل النبي يفاوض على الشروط؛ وبعد ثلاث سنين كان مسلمًا، ويذكره التراث يخطب في مكة ناعيًا النبي."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "أُسر بـ[[event/battle-of-badr|بدر]] فافتُدي، وبقي من وجوه مكة العامة: حين جاء النبي معتمرًا سنة 628 بعثت قريش سهيلًا يردّه — فانتهى موقّعًا [[event/treaty-of-hudaybiyya|صلح الحديبية]] يجادل في البنود بندًا بندًا {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nوأسلم [[event/conquest-of-mecca|يوم الفتح]]. يحفظ التراث قول النبي فيه ذلك اليوم: إنه رجل سترونه في مقام يسرّكم — وتُقرأ متحققة حين ثبّت سهيل أهل مكة بخطبة لما جاء نعي النبي {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nمات في طاعون عمواس نحو سنة 639م {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "صار دبلوماسي المعارضة خطيب الانتقال — حكاية رجل الصلح الذي بقي ليؤبّن."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "أُرسل سهيل يجادل النبي — وفيما بعد ألقى الخطبة التي هدّأت مكة حين مات النبي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/suhayl-ibn-amr",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Suhayl ibn Amr was Quraysh's orator — the voice sent to negotiate. At Hudaybiyya he sat across from the Prophet dictating terms; three years later he was a Muslim, and the tradition remembers him eulogizing the Prophet in Mecca."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Captured at [[event/battle-of-badr|Badr]] and ransomed, Suhayl remained one of Mecca's public faces: when the Prophet came to make pilgrimage in 628, it was Suhayl whom Quraysh sent to turn him back — and who ended by signing the [[event/treaty-of-hudaybiyya|Treaty of Hudaybiyya]], arguing the points clause by clause {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nHe converted at the [[event/conquest-of-mecca|conquest]]. The tradition records the Prophet saying of him that day: he is a man you will see stand in a station that will gladden you — read as fulfilled when Suhayl steadied Mecca with a speech at the news of the Prophet's death {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nHe died in the plague of Amwas, about 639 CE {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "The diplomat of the opposition became the orator of the transition — the story of the treaty man who stayed to give the funeral speech."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Suhayl was sent to argue with the Prophet — and later gave the speech that calmed Mecca when the Prophet died."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/suhayl-ibn-amr",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/salman-al-farisi",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "person/heraclius",
  "person/hind-bint-utba",
  "person/uthman-ibn-affan",
  "person/muhammad",
  "person/abu-bakr"
 ],
 "connections": [
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   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/amwas",
   "type": "died_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/quraysh",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-badr",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "captured-and-ransomed",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/treaty-of-hudaybiyya",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "meccan-negotiator",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "to": "event/treaty-of-hudaybiyya",
   "type": "signed",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "signatory-for-quraysh",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad",
   "type": "converted_under",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0630"
   },
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/badr-prisoners",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "رُفض اقتراح نزع ثنيتيه احترازاً عن المثلة (الرحيق ص230)",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/umar-ibn-al-khattab",
  "person/musab-ibn-umayr",
  "person/al-nadr-ibn-al-harith",
  "person/uqba-ibn-abi-muayt",
  "person/muhammad",
  "event/conquest-of-mecca",
  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
  "person/umm-salama"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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