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Amr ibn Amir Muzayqiya

عمرو بن عامر مزيقياء

Amr ibn Amir, called Muzayqiya — last holder of the leadership over Qahtan's sons when the 'Arim flood scattered them through the lands; his stay at the Ghassan water gave the tribe its name, and his years are put at eight hundred 1.

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موجز

عمرو بن عامر بن ماء السماء، المعروف بمزيقياء، انتهت إليه الرياسة في ولد قحطان حين أرسل الله عليهم سيل العرم فتفرقوا في البلدان. 2

وذُكر أنه لما خرج من مأرب أقام على ماء غسان حتى أدركه الموت. وجعل المسعودي عمره ثمانمائة سنة: أربعمائة سوقة وأربعمائة ملكاً. 3

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Imran ibn Amr Muzayqiya· Jafna ibn Amr· Tha'laba ibn Amr Muzayqiya· Tha'laba ibn Amr al-Azdi

People and things also explored

al-Azd· Imran ibn Amr Muzayqiya· Jafna ibn Amr· Tha'laba ibn Amr al-Azdi· al-Sham (Greater Syria)· Medina· Oman· The Ghassanid Kingdom

Sources

  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 425-426, 489
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.425-426
  3. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.489
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al-Azd

A Kahlani Qahtani tribe that migrated from Yemen under Imran ibn Amr Muzayqiya; its branches dispersed to Yathrib (the Aws and Khazraj through Thaʾlaba), Mecca (Khuzaʾa), Oman, and al-Sham (Jafna, ancestor of the Ghassanids).