al-Hadira

الحادرة

600~

Jazirat al-Arab (the Arabian Peninsula)

A pre-Islamic poet nicknamed al-Hadira, named Qutba ibn Aws ibn Muhsin ibn Jarwal in the edition of the Mufaddaliyyat; his ode "Sumayya set out early" is in the Mufaddaliyyat {1}.

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Roles
Poet
Era
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Region
Arabia

Life in time

550575600625650675700 c. c. c.
Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib · Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf · Abd Yalil ibn Amr · Abdallah ibn Qays al-Ash'ari · Abdullah ibn Jahsh

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Jazirat al-Arab (the Arabian Peninsula)

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Jazirat al-Arab (the Arabian Peninsula)

People and things also explored

Abdullah ibn Abi Atiq· Abu Afak· Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith· al-Akhzar ibn Lut al-Dili· al-Fadl ibn al-Abbas ibn Utba ibn Abi Lahab· al-Harith ibn Hilliza al-Yashkuri· al-Harith ibn Sulayl al-Asadi· al-Harith ibn Wa'la al-Jarmi

Sources

  1. al-Mufaddaliyyat of al-Mufaddal al-Dabbi, al-Matba'a al-Rahmaniyya (1926) , p.9
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