صعصعة بن ناجية

صعصعة بن ناجية

Sa'sa'a ibn Najiya al-Mujashi'i of Tamim, the jahili orator and grandfather of al-Farazdaq — 'Najiya's son, by whose counsel Tamim lived'; he urged Tamim onto Khusraw's convoy before Islam ¹, and he is the legendary 'preventer of the buried-alive': finding a man of Banu al-Hujaym about to bury his newborn daughter he bought her for two milch camels and his own mount, saving a hundred girls in all; he later came in delegation to the Prophet, heard sura al-Zalzala and professed Islam ².