Dorayd bin Al Summah or Duraid son of As-Simmah () was a pre-

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and

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of the

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tribe. He was also the chief of the Banu Jusham bin Sa'd,Abi Hatem Sahl bin Muhammad Al-Sijistani. almueamirun walwasaya (in Arabic). p. 8. or the modern day Al-Qthami clan of the tribe of

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. Historians have cited that he contributed to more than a hundred battles for his tribe. By the time of the

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, he was already an old man and remained a

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Pedigree of Dorayd bin Al Soma

Dorayd bin Al Soma (Muawiyah) bin Al-Harith bin Muawiyah bin Bakr bin Alqa bin Khuza'ah bin Ghazieh bin Jashem bin Saad bin Bakr bin Hawazen

His attributes

Dorayd bin Al Summah is a brave knight and poet, and Muhammad bin Salam Al-Jumahi made him the first poet of the knights. He was the longest war poet, and Abu Ubaidah said: Dorayd bin Al Summah was the leader of Banu Jashem bin Saad, their knight and their leader, and participated in about a hundred battles, he did not lose in one of them, and he heard about Islam but did not embrace it, and participated in the Battle of Hunayn.

Brothers

Duraid had four brothers: Abdullah, who was killed by

Ghatafan The Ghaṭafān ( ar, غطفان) were an Arab tribal confederation originally based northeast of Medina. The main branches of the Ghatafan were the tribes of Banu Abs, Banu Dhubyan and Ashja'. They were one of the Arab tribes that interacted wi ...

, Abd Yaghoth, who was killed by Banu Murra, Qais, who was killed by Banu Abi Bakr Ibn Kilab, and Khalid, who was killed by Banu al-Harith Ibn Ka’b. Their mother is Rehana, the daughter of Ma’dikarb al-Zubaidi, the sister of Amr ibn Ma’dikarb

His story with Khansa

In his old age, he proposed marriage to the poet

Al-Khansa Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Sharīd al-Sulamīyah ( ar, تماضر بنت عمرو بن الحارث بن الشريد السُلمية), usually simply referred to as al-Khansāʾ ( ar, الخنساء, links=no, meaning "snub-n ...

. According to the ''

Kitab al-Aghani ''Kitab al-Aghani'' ( ar, كتاب الأغاني, kitāb al-‘aghānī, The Book of Songs), is an encyclopedic collection of poems and songs that runs to over 20 volumes in modern editions, attributed to the 10th-century Arabic writer Abu al-F ...

'', she sent a slave woman to watch him urinate, saying "If his urine cuts into the ground, he has got something left in him; but if his urine trickles over the surface, there's no zip in him." The slave woman observed only a weak stream of urine, so Al-Khansa refused his offer of marriage.

References

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Pedigree of Dorayd bin Al Soma

His attributes

Brothers

His story with Khansa

See also

References