Abū l-Dardāʾ (ʿUwaymir b. Mālik)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/3911

Companion of Muḥammad and ascetic

Names

  • Arabic: أبو الدرداء (عويمر بن مالك) = Abū l-Dardāʾ (ʿUwaymir b. Mālik) 1
  • Arabic: أبو الدرداء = Abū l-Dardāʾ 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 32 AH/652–3 CE

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 400 (2) 303، 468 (3) 430 (4) 265 (5) 174 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 89, 96, 111, 300, 301, 321, 388 [Arabic].
    • Abū al-Dardā’: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 75, 91, 96, 305, 306, 307, 326, 398 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Abū l-Dardāʾ (ʿUwaymir b. Mālik)” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/3911.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
  • Jessica Mutter: birth/death/floruit dates entry and matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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