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ʿAmmār b. Yāsir Abū l-Yaqẓān

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Companion, supporter of ʿAli, d. Battle of Ṣiffīn

Names

  • Arabic: عمار بن ياسر أبو اليقظان = ʿAmmār b. Yāsir Abū l-Yaqẓān 1
  • Arabic: عمار بن ياسر = ʿAmmār b. Yāsir 2-3
  • Arabic: عمار = ʿAmmār 4

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 37 AH/657 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
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.3-4 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 98، 400 (2) 9، 30، 207، 230، 290، 503 (3) 118، 270، 283 (4) 333 (5) 317، 323 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 42, 44, 46, 49, 129, 144, 173, 183, 189, 190, 206, 209, 238 [Arabic].
    • `Ammār b. Yāsir: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 30, 32, 35, 38, 116, 132, 158, 170, 175, 177, 189, 191, 219 [English].
  • 3Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:269 [Arabic].
    • ʿAmmār b. Yāsir: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 91 [English].
  • 4Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 2:38 [Arabic].
    • ʿAmmār: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), II, 303 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “ʿAmmār b. Yāsir Abū l-Yaqẓān” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/7708.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • 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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