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al-Ahwas al-Ansari

الأحوص الأنصاري

Umayyad poet from the Ansar of Medina, known for love poetry and for his standing in Arabic letters.

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Roles
Poet
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Arabia
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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

عبد الله بن محمد بن عاصم الأحوص الأنصاري، شاعر أموي من أنصار المدينة، اشتهر بشعر الغزل. 1

مكانته

تذكره الموسوعة صاحب مكانة في الأدب العربي. 1

يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي: لا تذكر البيانات تاريخاً لحياته ولا نماذج من شعره.

People and things also explored

al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Arab naming of children after plants· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina· Salim ibn Umayr's mission to kill Abu Afak· Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan· The killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Ahwas al-Ansari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-ahwas-al-ansari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.