An-Nu'man ibn Humaydah al-Bariqi (; died 600 CE) was a philosopher in Classical

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. In addition, he was knight and the leader of the

Bariq Bariq (also Romanization of Arabic, transliterated as Barik or Bareq, ) is a tribe from Bareq in south-west Saudi Arabia. It belongs to the ancient Al-Azd tribe which has many clans linked to it. As far as ancestry goes, Banu Aus, Aws, Khazraj, G ...

tribe, located in

Azd The Azd (Arabic: أَزْد), or Al-Azd (Arabic: ٱلْأَزْد), is an ancient Tribes of Arabia, Arabian tribe. The lands of Azd occupied an area west of Bisha and Al Bahah in what is today Saudi Arabia. Land of Azd Pre-Islamic Arabia Pre- ...

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and was famous for its glory.

Lineage

His full name was al-Nu'man b.

Humaydah Humaydah (also transliterated as Humaidah, ), is an Arab tribe, a subgroup of the Bariq tribe of the Qahtanite people. They were a powerful house which governed the city of Bareq until the Ibn Saud invasion and lived peacefully beside al-Ali. ...

b. al-Harith b. Awf b. Amr b. Sa`d b. Thailbh b. Kinanah al-Bariqi Ibn

Ibn Uday Ibn Haritha Ibn Amr Mazikiee Ibn Aamr bin Haritha Algtarif bin Imru al-Qais Thailb bin Mazen Ibn

Al-Azd The Azd (Arabic: أَزْد), or Al-Azd (Arabic: ٱلْأَزْد), is an ancient Arabian tribe. The lands of Azd occupied an area west of Bisha and Al Bahah in what is today Saudi Arabia. Land of Azd Pre-Islamic Arabia Pre-Islamic inscrip ...

Ibn Al-Ghoth Ibn Nabit Ibn Malik bin Zaid Ibn

Kahlan Kahlan () was one of the main tribal confederations of Sabaeans, Saba' in Ancient history of Yemen, Ancient Yemen. They are descended from Kahlan bin Saba bin Yishjab bin Yarub bin Qahtan. Conflict with Himyar By the 2nd century BC Saba' was decl ...

Ibn Saba'a (

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) Ibn Yashjub Ibn Yarab Ibn

Qahtan The Qahtanites (; ), also known as Banu Qahtan () or by their nickname ''al-Arab al-Ariba'' (), are the Arabs who originate from modern-day Yemen. The term "Qahtan" is mentioned in multiple Ancient South Arabian script, Ancient South Arabian ins ...

Ibn Hud (

Eber Eber (; ; ) is an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites according to the Generations of Noah in the Book of Genesis () and the Books of Chronicles (). Lineage Eber (Hebrew: Ever) was a great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father ...

). * Humaydah b. al-Harith (), was his father. * Humaydah b. al-Nu'man b. Humaydah al-Bariqi (), was his son.

Quotes

*Telling the truth has left me no friends.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:AlNu man ibn Humaydah 600 deaths 6th-century Arabic-language poets Banu Bariq Year of birth unknown Yemeni poets