Safīna

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/4639

Slave of Umm Salama, wife of Muḥammad, who freed him

Names

Arabic: سفينة = Safīna 1-2

Attributes

Male
Death: 1st century AH/7th century CE

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.2	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 303 [Arabic].
2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 57, 59, 418 [Arabic].
- Safīna: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 45, 46, 425 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Safīna” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/4639.

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

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