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 "id": "person/zayd-al-khayl",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "zayd-al-khayl",
 "label": {
  "en": "Zayd al-Khayl",
  "ar": "زيد الخيل"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Chief of Tayy' whose delegation came to Medina in the Year of Delegations; the Prophet renamed him Zayd al-Khayr ('the good') and said no Arab praised to him had ever fallen short of the praise except this man.",
  "ar": "سيد طيء الذي قدم في وفد قومه على النبي في عام الوفود فأسلم وحسن إسلامه؛ سمّاه النبي زيد الخير وقال: ما ذُكر لي رجل من العرب بفضل ثم جاءني إلا رأيته دون ما يُقال فيه إلا زيد الخيل."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "زيد الخيل الطائي"
   },
   {
    "kind": "laqab",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "زيد الخير"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion",
   "politician"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "interlocutor",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0631~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "في وفد طيء إلى المدينة سنة 9هـ.",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0631~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0631~"
    }
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/zad-al-maad"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 440-454 (batch 22)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "سيد طيء الذي قدم في وفد قومه سنة 9هـ فأسلم وحسن إسلامه، وسمّاه النبي زيد الخير {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص453}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "خبره",
     "markdown": "قدم وفد طيء وفيهم زيد الخيل فكلّموا النبي وعرض عليهم الإسلام فأسلموا وحسن إسلامهم {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص453}. وقال النبي في زيد: ما ذُكر لي رجل من العرب بفضل ثم جاءني إلا رأيته دون ما يُقال فيه إلا زيد الخيل فإنه لم يُبلغ كل ما فيه، وسمّاه زيد الخير {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص453}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كان زيد سيداً مشهوراً بالكرم والشجاعة بين قومه، فلما جاء النبي أعجبه حتى سمّاه «زيد الخير»."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/zayd-al-khayl",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Chief of Tayy' who came in his people's delegation in 9 AH, became Muslim and proved good in Islam; the Prophet named him Zayd al-Khayr — \"Goodness\" {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 453}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His story",
     "markdown": "Tayy''s delegation came, Zayd al-Khayl among them; they spoke with the Prophet, he offered them Islam and they became Muslim and their Islam proved good {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 453}. The Prophet said of Zayd: no Arab man was praised to me who then came to me but I found him less than what was said of him — except Zayd al-Khayl, for not all that is in him was told; and he named him Zayd al-Khayr {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 453}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Zayd was a chief famous among his people for generosity and courage; when he came, the Prophet was so impressed he named him \"Zayd the Good\"."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/zayd-al-khayl",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/tayy",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "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"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}