يوم الكلاب الثاني — مسير بني الحرث بن كعب على تميم

يوم الكلاب الثاني — مسير بني الحرث بن كعب على تميم

تقریباً 610 عیسوی

الكلاب

After the door was shut on Tamīm at al-Mushaqqar, a man of Qays ibn Thaʿlaba told his uncles Banū'l-Ḥārith ibn Kaʿb of Najrān that Tamīm's warriors lay dead and their wealth undefended. Banū'l-Ḥārith of Madhḥij mustered with their Nahd and Jarm allies — eight thousand, the largest host known in the Jāhiliyya save Khusraw's at Dhu Qār and the host of Jabala — and overrode their diviner Salama ibn al-Mughaffal's warning. Tamīm's elders put the choice to Aktham ibn Ṣayfī, then a hundred and ninety years old, who declined the chieftaincy but counseled splitting the defense at al-Dahnāʾ and al-Kullāb, keeping women from the ranks and voices low. The hosts met at al-Kullāb; Madhḥij broke, and their captive chief ʿAbd Yaghūth was killed after they bound his tongue — yet he still recited his famous verses. No ransom was taken ¹.