Poetry Codex

Arabic & Persian

Rabi'ah ibn Maqrum

7th century

Rabi'ah ibn Maqrum, of Dabbah, the tribe of al-Mufaddal himself, was taken prisoner by the Persian King and later became a Muslim, fighting at the battles of Qadisiyah (A.H. 15) and Jalula. Lyall reports that he reached a great age.

The pieces by him in the Mufaddaliyat celebrate his own or his tribe's warlike deeds.

Poems (4)

  1. Ode XXXVIII: Hast thou recognized the traces of
  2. Ode XXXIX: Ar-Ruwa' has cast off affection for
  3. Ode XLIII: Su'ad is gone, and thy heart
  4. Ode CXIII: Thou callest Zainab to mind, and

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