حماد عجرد
حماد عجرد
Hammad Ajrad — Persian-mawla poet and secretary in Mosul, famed (and, per Abu Nuwas's prison testimony, genuinely a leader) among the accused zindiqs of al-Mahdi's reign 1.
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Overview
Hammad al-Ajrad, a poet of the muwallad (Arabic-speaking, non-Arab-born) generation, one of the clients of the Persians. He was a secretary to Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Sawl in Mosul. 2.
Accusations of heresy
He was well known for heresy. Ahmad Amin, in "Duha al-Islam", transmits the words of Abu Nuwas, who thought that Hammad was accused of heresy because of the licentiousness of his verse, until he was imprisoned in the prison for heretics and found among their leaders. 2.
He also transmits from al-Mas'udi that Hammad was among those who translated the books of Mani and Daysan from Persian and Pahlavi into Arabic. He was among those whom al-Mansur gathered with Muhammad ibn Abi al-Abbas from among the heretics and the libertines in Basra. 3.
These reports come from a secondary source and need an additional source.
Sources
- Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012), p. 138-139, 149
- Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012), p.138-139
- Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012), p.149
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