The hedgehog
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the hedgehog · a hedgehog · qunfud · the hedgehog of Barqah · القنفد
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The hedgehog, named in the analogy of place-specific creatures and in a mocking verse.
just as they say "the hedgehog of Barqah" (5) and "the lizard of Saḥā" (6) and "the hare of al-Khullah" (7) and "the wolf of Khamar" (8), and so distinguish between these and what else is ascribed to that kind, whether in fatness or in malice or in strength — so likewise they distinguish between the places of the jinn.
What is it in you that amazes the jinn — I have known them — while among Asad are horses of theirs and choice mounts Do you saddle a jerboa and bridle a hedgehog?
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The animal behind the clan name Banū Qunfud, one of the roughly thirty animal-sounding tribal names collected by the opponent.
Banū Asad — Banū Jaʻdah — Banū Ḍabb — Banū Qahd » Badan — » Juʻal — » Ḍubayʻah — » Kalb » Bakr — » Ḥidāʼ — » ʻAḍal — » Naʻāmah » Bahthah — » Ḥamāmah — » ʻAnz — » Namir » Thaʻlab — » Ḥanash — » Ghurāb — » Wabr » Thawr — » Duʼbul — » Fahd — » Hawzan Banū Jaḥsh — Banū Dubb — Banū Qird — Banū Yarbūʻ » Jarād — » Dhiʼb — » Qunfud —