Al-Nabighah al-Dhubyani
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
al-Nābighah · Ziyād ibn Muʻāwiyah · al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī · النابغة · زياد بن معاوية
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Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Pre-Islamic poet cited both for Tadmur's jinn-builders and for the jinn of al-Baqqār.
None but Sulaymān, when the God said to him — stand up among mankind and hold them back (5) from falsehood (6) and subdue the jinn (7):
Coated (13) with the rust of iron, as though they were — beneath the mail (14) the jinn of al-Baqqār (15)
Al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī said:
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The pre-Islamic poet whose given name was Ziyād ibn Muʻāwiyah, cited both as a by-name case and as the poetic authority that al-Anmār were famed hunters.
and the original name may go and the by-name alone remain, the tribe being known by it — as happened with al-Anmār, which is a tribe of Nizār so nicknamed because its people were famous for the chase, as though they were leopards in springing upon the prey.
A hunter bore down upon him, running with his hounds — lean of knuckle, one of the huntsmen of Anmār (1)
his name was Ziyād ibn Muʻāwiyah.