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Aja and Salma (the two mountains of Tayy)

جبلا طيء (أجأ وسلمى)

The two mountains where the tribe of Tayy settled after al-Azd moved north, so that they became known as the mountains of Tayy, in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's account.

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Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Aja and Salma: two mountains in northern Najd. After the Azd had moved north, Banu Tayy set out for them, settled there, and stayed until the two mountains came to be known as the Mountains of Tayy. 1 2.

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The Sealed Nectar does not describe the two mountains or fix their location; fixing their coordinates awaits a check against a geographical dictionary.

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Two large mountains in the north of the Arabian Peninsula, where the tribe of Tayy lived; people called them "the Mountains of Tayy".

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Christianity in Arabia before Islam· The capture and release of Hatim al-Ta'i's daughter· Zayd al-Khayl comes with the delegation of Tayy· Adi ibn Hatim's flight to Syria, his coming to the Prophet and his conversion· Kahlan· Adi ibn Hatim· Hatim al-Ta'i's daughter (Saffana)· Zayd al-Khayl

Sources

  1. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, p.17
  2. Qalb Jazirat al-Arab — Fuʾad Hamza, p.231-235
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Christianity in Arabia before Islam

Christianity came to Arabia through the Abyssinian and Roman occupations in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's account: Christian missions entered Yemen during the first Abyssinian occupation, Najran was converted by the ascetic Faymiyun, Abraha spread it vigorously and built the Yemeni Kaaba to divert the Arabs' pilgrimage, and the Ghassanids, Taghlib, Tayy and some kings of al-Hira adopted it from their proximity to the Romans.