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Banu ʿAbs

بنو عبس

Banu Abs ibn Baghid ibn Rayth ibn Ghatafan ibn Sa'd ibn Qays Aylan — Ghatafan's most famous clan for poetry and horsemanship; from them Antara ibn Shaddad and Urwa ibn al-Ward, and their war on Dhubyan named for Dahis and al-Ghabra 1 2 3.

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Era
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Region
Arabia

Family, marriage and kinship

Summary

Banu Abs ibn Baghid ibn Rayth ibn Ghatafan ibn Sa'd ibn Qays Aylan — Ghatafan's most famous clan for poetry and horsemanship; from them Antara ibn Shaddad and Urwa ibn al-Ward, and their war on Dhubyan named for Dahis and al-Ghabra 1 2 3.

Lineage and home

النسب والموطن: عبس بن بغيض بن ريث بن غطفان؛ دارهم ببادية نجد وتهامة، وهم أخوة ذبيان وأشجع في غطفان 1.

In Islam and history

في الشعر: من عبس عنترة وفارسه الأغر وحرب داحس والغبراء التي دامت أربعين عاماً بينهم وبين ذبيان 2.

For younger visitors

Banu Abs of Ghatafan — the tribe of the knight-poet Antara ibn Shaddad.

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Has member
Qurra ibn Sharik

People and things also explored

the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As· Al-Fustat· Misr (Egypt)· Qurra ibn Sharik· Taj Mahal· The Muslim home (al-bayt al-muslim)· Living with a spouse in kindness (mu'ashara bil-ma'ruf)· Male guardianship in the family (qiwama)

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Rusul wa-l-Muluk — al-Tabari
  2. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir
  3. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.16
  • al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
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the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As

The great mosque of Fustat built by Amr ibn al-As on his camp's ground, where some eighty Companions prayed. The Encyclopaedia of Islam calls it the first mosque built in Egypt, at first fifty by thirty cubits, reaching its present size in 212/827 after repeated rebuilding. It served as a place of prayer, council, court and lodging for travellers, with the tribal quarters of the settlement laid out around it.