Bukayr ibn Shaddad

بكير بن شداد

Bukayr ibn Shaddad ibn Amir of Kinana, rider of the horse Atlal; he rode with Sa'id ibn al-As on the Azerbaijan raid — al-Shammakh's verse ransoms 'Bukayr of the Shaddakh sons, knight of Atlal' — and he it was who heard a Jew reciting poetry in Umar's caliphate and killed him.

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The Rashidun Caliphate
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Conquest of Azerbaijan

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Abdallah ibn Shibl al-Antamasi· al-Ash'ath ibn Qays· al-Walid ibn Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt· Amr ibn Utba the Ascetic· Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman· Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Umayya· Utba ibn Farqad al-Sulami· Azerbaijan

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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