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عمرو بن كلثوم

عمرو بن كلثوم

Amr ibn Kulthum of Taghlib, jahili poet and Mu'allaqa author, son of Layla bint Muhalhil and nephew of Kulayb; he killed King Amr ibn Hind for insulting his mother, and answered the Ghassanid al-Harith's threat — 'no people ever woke save to their own counsel's shafts; do not wake the sleeper' — then routed him and slew his brother 1.

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Poet
Era
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Region
Arabia
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موجز

عمرو بن كلثوم بن مالك التغلبي، من بني تغلب، شاعر جاهلي وصاحب إحدى المعلقات. أمه ليلى بنت مهلهل، وعمه لأمه كليب. 2

قتل عمرو بن هند صاحب الحيرة حين أهان أمه ليلى. 3

ورد على الحارث بن أبي شمر الغساني حين توعد تغلب بالغزو بقوله: «ما استيقظ قوم قط إلا نبل رأيهم وعزت جماعتهم، فلا توقظن نائمهم». فغزاهم الحارث فانهزم وقُتل أخوه. 2

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Member of
Banu Taghlib ibn Wa'il
Related to
المهلهل بن ربيعة· كليب بن ربيعة
Participated in
قتل عمرو بن هند مضرط الحجارة· حرب الحارث الأعرج على بني تغلب

People and things also explored

Banu Taghlib ibn Wa'il· حرب البسوس· المهلهل بن ربيعة· كليب بن ربيعة· حرب الحارث الأعرج على بني تغلب· Christianity in Arabia before Islam· The Treaty with the Christian Taghlib· يوم البردان

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 403, 409
  2. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p.403
  3. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p.409
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Banu Taghlib ibn Wa'il

Banu Taghlib ibn Wa'il of Rabi'a, many of them Christian in the Jazira; famed for Zur'a ibn al-Nu'man's words to Umar — 'a people of Arabs who would scorn the jizya' — so he compounded with them for double the sadaqa taken of Muslims on land and herds, not foreigners' jizya, on condition they not Christianise their children, a clause over which jurists differed and Ali censured their breach; of them is Malik ibn Tawq, lord of al-Rahba.