Abū Jandal

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14575

Al-'As b. Suhayl; early convert to Islam who was imprisoned, escaped from Mecca to join the Muslims at truce of Ḥudaybiyya (6/628), but was returned to Meccan polytheists according to the terms of the treaty

Names

Arabic: أبو جندل = Abū Jandal 1

Attributes

Male

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993

Sources

1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 46, 51 [Arabic].
- Abū Jandal: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 35, 40 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Abū Jandal” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14575.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
Jessica Mutter: abstract and gender assignment, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan

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