Durayd ibn al-Simma
Durayd ibn al-Simma (Durayd ibn al-Ṣimma) was a pre-Islamic warrior, knight and poet of the Hawazin tribe. He was also the chief of the Banu Jusham ibn Mu'awiya, or the modern day Al-Qthami clan of the tribe of Otaibah. Historians have cited that he contributed to more than a hundred battles for his tribe.
Durayd ibn al-Simma
- Name
- Durayd ibn al-Simma
- Born
- 6th century
- Died
- January 630
- Occupation
- Poet, knight
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Durayd ibn al-Simma (Durayd ibn al-Ṣimma) was a pre-Islamic warrior, knight and poet of the Hawazin tribe. He was also the chief of the Banu Jusham ibn Mu'awiya, or the modern day Al-Qthami clan of the tribe of Otaibah. Historians have cited that he contributed to more than a hundred battles for his tribe.
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Key facts
• Name — Durayd ibn al-Simma • Born — 6th century • Died — January 630 • Father — Mu'awiya ibn al-Harith al-Khuza'i al-Jushami • Mother — Rayhana bint Ma'adi Yakrib • Occupation — Poet, knight
Lineage of Durayd ibn al-Simma
Lineage of Durayd ibn al-Simma
Durayd ibn al-Simma (Mu'awiya) ibn al-Harith ibn Mu'awiya ibn Bakr ibn Alqa ibn Khuza'a ibn Ghazieh ibn Jusham ibn Mu'awiya ibn Bakr ibn Hawazin ibn Mansur ibn Ikrima ibn Khasafa ibn Qays ʿAylān ibn Mudar ibn Nizar ibn Ma'add ibn Adnan.
Brothers
Brothers
Durayd had four brothers: Abd Allah, who was killed by Ghatafan, Abd Yaghuth, who was killed by Banu Murra, Qays, who was killed by Banu Abu Bakr ibn Kilab, and Khalid, who was killed by Banu al-Harith ibn Ka'b. Their mother is Rayhana, the daughter of Ma'adi Yakrib al-Zubaidi, the sister of Amr ibn Ma'adi Yakrib.
His story with Khansa
His story with Khansa
In his old age, he proposed marriage to the poet Al-Khansa. According to the Kitab al-Aghani, she sent a slave woman to watch him urinate, saying "If his urine cuts into the ground, he has got something left in him; but if his urine trickles over the surface, there's no zip in him." The slave woman observed only a weak stream of urine, so Al-Khansa refused his offer of marriage.
His attributes
Durayd ibn al-Simma is a brave knight and poet, and Muhammad bin Salam Al-Jumahi made him the first poet of the knights. He was the longest war poet, and Abu Ubayda said: Durayd ibn al-Simma was the leader of Banu Jusham ibn Sa'd, their knight and their leader, and participated in about a hundred battles, he did not lose in one of them, and he heard about Islam but did not embrace it, and participated in the Battle of Hunayn.
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- 1.Uno degli Ayyām al-ʿArab, combattuto tra Quraysh e Kināna da una parte e Qays ʿAylān (senza i Ghaṭafān) dall'altra.
- 2.Lett. "Schiavo [della divinità pagana] Yaghūt", che con l'idolo di Yaʿūq era una delle divinità che si credeva fossero state ritrovate da ʿAmr b. Luhayy, su ispirazione del jinn Abū Thumāma, sulla spiaggia di Gedda, dopo che i popoli che li adoravano erano periti nelle acque del Diluvio. Cfr. Claudio Lo Jacono, "La religiosità in Arabia nel VII secolo", in: Islam. Storia e civiltà, 40, XI/3, 1992, nota 31.
- 3.Nome non meno interessante, che dimostrerebbe un culto non episodico di Allah in ambito pagano. Nome che, per inciso, ebbe anche il padre di Maometto, ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib.
- 4.Si veda in merito al-Aṣmaʿī nelle sue Fuḥūlat al-shuʿarāʾ (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 65, p. 498, linea 20).
- 5.Nome della tribù di Durayd, altrimenti detta Ṭayyiʾ.
- 6.K. al-Aghānī, 25 voll., Beirut, Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1986, X, pp. 37-38. Il suo nome completo era Rabīʿa b. Rufayʿ b. Uhbān b. Thaʿlaba b. Rabīʿa b. Yarbūʿ b. Sammāl b. ʿAwf b. Imru l-Qays. Cfr. Ibn Isḥāq, al-Sīrat al-nabawiyya, ed. Muṣṭafā al-Saqqā, Ibrāhīm al-Abyārī e ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ Shalabī, 2 voll., Il Cairo, Muṣṭafā al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī, 1955, II, 852.
- 7.Ironia della sorte, i B. Sulaym erano stati in passato frequentemente alleati di Durayd ma la fede islamica era evidentemente destinata a sconvolgere tutto il quadro tradizionale delle alleanze in Arabia, fin dentro le famiglie nucleari, i clan e le tribù.
- 8.Che inizialmente non l'aveva riconosciuto e che pensava si trattasse di una donna, visto che si trovava all'interno della lettiga, usualmente riservata alle donne.
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