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شريح بن الأحوص

شريح بن الأحوص

Son of al-Ahwas ibn Ja'far; he speared Laqit ibn Zurara down the ravine at Sha'b Jabala — though some give the thrust to Jaz' ibn Khalid 1.

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Shurayh ibn al-Ahwas, son of al-Ahwas ibn Ja'far al-Kilabi. Luqayt ibn Zurara was stabbed on the day of Sha'b Jabala, when he drove his horse into the ravine and fell wounded. It is said that the one who stabbed him was Juz' ibn Khalid ibn Ja'far, but the first version is more firmly established in the source 2.

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لقيط بن زرارة· يوم شعب جبلة

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  1. Ansab al-Ashraf of al-Baladhuri, p. 30
  2. Ansab al-Ashraf of al-Baladhuri, p.30
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لقيط بن زرارة

Laqit ibn Zurara Abu Hanzhala, chief of Banu Darim; at Sha'b Jabala he rode the first caparisoned horse in Arab memory under a gilded Sasanian saddle, charged the ravine on his horse's 'advance or be hamstrung', was speared by Shurayh ibn al-Ahwas and died calling on his wife Dukhtanus.