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Farda

فَرْدة

A water in Najd where fever struck Zayd al-Khayl (may God be pleased with him) on his way home from Medina and where he died; he names it in his last two verses.

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The Prophetic Era
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Arabia
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A water in Najd, at which Zayd al-Khayl stopped on his way back from Medina. He caught a fever there and died. 1

In poetry

Zayd mentioned it in two lines when he felt death coming: his people set out eastward at dawn, and he is left alone in a house at Farda in Najd. The editors explain that the word "munjad" means "in Najd". 1

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Place of death of
Zayd al-Khayl

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Zayd al-Khayl comes with the delegation of Tayy· Tayy· Muhammad· Zayd al-Khayl

Sources

  1. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/224
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Zayd al-Khayl comes with the delegation of Tayy

The delegation of Tayy came with their chief Zayd al-Khayl; the Prophet offered them Islam and they became good Muslims. The Prophet said, as Ibn Ishaq heard from men of Tayy, that every Arab praised to him fell short of the praise when he came, except Zayd al-Khayl, who exceeded it; he renamed him Zayd al-Khayr, granted him Fayd and other lands and wrote it for him. On the way home fever struck him at a water called Farda and he died, and his wife burned the Prophet's writs.