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الحارث بن أبي شمر الغساني

الحارث بن أبي شمر الغساني

Al-Harith ibn Abi Shamir 'the Lame' (Arethas), Ghassanid king of Syria: routed by Taghlib after Amr ibn Kulthum's defiance, losing his own brother; it was to him that Samaw'al ibn Adiya's letter commended Imru' al-Qays seeking passage to Caesar 1.

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emir
Era
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Region
Levant & Iraq
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موجز

الحارث بن أبي شمر الغساني، الملقب «الأعرج»، ملك غسان بالشام. 2

أخباره

غزا بني تغلب بعد أن ردّ عليه عمرو بن كلثوم وعيده، فانهزم وقُتل أخوه. 2

وإليه كتب السموأل بن عادياء ليوصل امرأ القيس بن حجر إلى قيصر، يستنصره على ثأر أبيه. 3

انظر أيضاً الحارث بن أبي شمر؛ والبيانات تعدّهما مدخلين منفصلين، ويحتاج الأمر إلى مراجعة.

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حرب الحارث الأعرج على بني تغلب

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حرب الحارث الأعرج على بني تغلب· Ghassan· Christianity in Arabia before Islam· The letter of the king of Ghassan to Ka'b ibn Malik· al-Azd· Banu Taghlib ibn Wa'il· عمرو بن كلثوم· Jabala ibn al-Ayham

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 385, 403
  2. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p.385
  3. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p.403
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حرب الحارث الأعرج على بني تغلب

The Ghassanid king al-Harith ibn Abi Shamir's war on Taghlib: ungreeted by their riders on his march, he swore a raid that 'would leave them wide-awake for his coming'; Amr ibn Kulthum answered that peoples wake only to their own counsel — and when al-Harith invaded he was routed and his brother slain, the occasion of Amr's great qasida.