عبد المسيح بن عمرو بن بقيلة

عبد المسيح بن عمرو بن بقيلة

In al-Baladhuri: Abd al-Masih ibn Amr ibn Qays ibn Hayyan ibn Buqayla — Buqayla's name being al-Harith — of Azd; an old man when he came out to negotiate al-Hira's peace with Khalid ibn al-Walid (may God be pleased with him), their famous exchange running 'from my mother's belly', 'in my clothes', 'on the earth', 'we built them for the fool until the wise man comes'; they agreed a hundred thousand yearly — the first money carried to Medina from Iraq, year 12.