Qurayt ibn Unayf

قريط بن أنيف

650~ – 690~

al-Anbar

A poet of Banu al-Anbar; his ode "Had you been of Mazin, Banu al-Laqita would not have taken my camels" opens the chapter of valour in the Diwan al-Hamasa; the edition notes that the Hamasa ascribes it to "some poet of al-Anbar", whom al-Tibrizi names Qurayt ibn Unayf {1}.

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At a glance

Roles
Poet
Region
Arabia

Life in time

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Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan · Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan · Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla · Abd Allah ibn Abi Talha al-Ansari · Abdallah ibn al-Harith ibn Nawfal

In space

al-Anbar

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Literature

Place in the story

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Lived in
al-Anbar

People and things also explored

Salma bint Attab· The Conquest of al-Anbar and the Raid on Baghdad's Market· Al-Anbar made the seat of the caliphate· Abu'l-'Abbas al-Nashi'· Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah· Abu Ya'la al-Farra'· Al-'Anbari· Al-Anbari, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad

Sources

  1. Diwan al-Hamasa of Abu Tammam (1916 edition) , p.6
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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.
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Salma bint Attab

A woman poet of Tamim who spoke two verses on the day of Uyayna ibn Hisn's raid on Banu al-Anbar, lamenting the evil that befell Adi ibn Jundab, the enemies closing in from every side and the absence of their might and fortune; nothing else of her is known from Ibn Ishaq.