Amru bin Ma'adi Yakrib

Amr (Amru) ibn Maadi bin Yakrib al-Zubaidi al-Madhhiji was the last king of the kings of Yemen before Islam. he was from the tribe of Zubaid part of the large tribe Madhhij. He was very brave and he converted to Islam at time of Muhammad. When Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas asked the Khalifah Umar ibn al-Khattab to send him reinforcement for the battle of Qadisiyah. Umar replied: "I have sent you 2000 men: Amr bin Ma'adi Yakrib and Tulayhah al-Asadi. Each one of them counts as a thousand." [1] He was mentioned by al-Hamdani in "Geography of the Arabian Peninsula" as a valiant knight of the Madhhij tribe of Yemen.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Tartushi (1994). سراج الملوك /Sirāj al-mulūk. Cairo: al-Dar al-Misriyah al-Lubnaniyah. ISBN 9772701413.
  2. ↑ al-Hamdani, al-Hasan. David H. Müller, ed. Geography of the Arabian Peninsula. p. 85.
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