Al-Nu'man ibn Adi

Son of Adi ibn Nadla; he accompanied his father to Abyssinia and arrived from there, and Umar later appointed him over Maysan then dismissed him over verses ascribed to him. ¹

Ibn Ishaq mentions that al-Nu'man ibn Adi was with his father Adi in Abyssinia, and that he came with the Muslims who arrived from the land of Abyssinia. ¹ He lived on until Umar ibn al-Khattab's caliphate; Umar appointed him over Maysan of the Basra territory then dismissed him. ¹ The cause of the dismissal was verses he spoke (the editors' note says he wrote them to his wife); when they reached Umar he said they pained him and dismissed him. When al-Nu'man excused himself that he was a poet who spoke as poets do, Umar answered that he would never employ him again for what remained, as he had said what he said. ¹

He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Adi ibn Ka'b ¹

• The verse-reading differs between "sanaja/raqqasa" (the editors cite Mu'jam al-Buldan's reading); the verses are not reproduced here.
• Whether al-Nu'man arrived in the two ships or after them is not stated; Ibn Ishaq only said "he came with those who came".