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Tamīm al-ārī1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

David Cook
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Abstract

Tamīm al-Dārī was one of the Prophet Muḥammad's companions and an early convert to Islam from Christianity. His name is most closely associated with the eschatological traditions concerning the Dajjāl (the Muslim Antichrist), and various early ascetic ideas. The best known story involving him is in fact his meeting with the Dajjāl, after he and others of his tribe are shipwrecked on a mysterious island. He is taken by a creature called al-jassāsa to meet a chained man in a monastery, who asks the tribesmen a number of questions about the state of the outside world, most of which are related to the area of the Rift Valley in Syria. After they answer him, he proclaims himself to be the Dajjāl and announces that he is about to be let loose on the world. Somehow Tamīm and his companions manage to leave the island and come to visit the Prophet, who hears their story and relates it to the populace of Medina. However, in spite of this story, historical material about him, as is common with the Prophet's companions in general, is hard to come by. In this article I will explore some of the historical traditions connected with this figure and try to establish which material is reliable and which is not.

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10 Not all of the sources cited in footnote 7 mention the land-deed.

11 'al-Māwardī, Alī b. MuḤammad, al-Ahkām al-sultāniyya (Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, n.d.), 239–41Google Scholar gives some; and , al-Hindī, Kanz, III, 913–18Google Scholar has a discussion of the competing traditions on the subject. Al-Majlisī, Bihār, xvm, 134ff. gives many more.

12 All the variants are quoted in Hamīdullāh, M., Majmūa al-wathā'iq al-siyāsiyya (Cairo: Maktaba al-Thaqafiyya al-Dīniyya, n.d.), 51–6.Google Scholar The text translated above is located on p. 52.

13 This idea comes from Quran 59: 6–7. The difference of verbs in the text wahaba = gave, and ‘ atā = bestowed) indicates that the source of the gifts is God

14 On Bayt 'Aynun see Conder, C., A survey of Western Palestine (Jerusalem: Qedem, 1970 (repr.)), III, 311, 351;Google Scholar and R. Zadok, 'Hirbet Bayt ‘Enūn’, Israel Exploration Journal, 29, 1979, 62. Hibrun is probably the base village of the modern city and apparently carried its ancient name well into the Muslim period, since from the 800s/1400s we have the nisba of one Aḥmad b. Mūsā al-Hibrawī al-Khalīlī: Muḥammad b. 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī, al-Daw ' al-lāmi' fī rijāl al-qarn al-tisa' (Beirut: Dār Maktabat al-Ḥayāt, n.d.), n, 230 (no. 651); and the village of Khirbet Ḥibra in Conder, in, 281. MarṠūm is probably a village or a monastery (or perhaps a martyrium) with the name Mar Thomas, see map in Massignon, L., ‘Documents sur certains waqfs des lieux saints de l'lslamĩ, Revue des Etudes Islamiques (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1952), 79.Google Scholar

The variations on the place names are many: (1) 'Aynūn in Ibn Ḥajar al-'Asqalānī, Isāba, I, 184; Ibn al-Athīr, Usd, I, 256; and al-Suyūtī, Husn al-muhādara fī mahāsin Misr wa'l-Qāhira, ed. Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Cairo: Dār Iḥya al-Kutub al-'Arabiyya, 1968), i, 177; (2) Bayt Habrūn in Ibn Ḥajar, Tahdhīb al-tahdhīb (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1984), i, 449; (3) Ḥibra and Bayt 'Aynūn in al-Maqrīzī, ‘Daw'’, 159; (4) Bayt Ḥibra and Bayt 'Aynūn in Ibn al-Kalbī, Nasab, i, 207; (5) Athar Ibrāhīm in Aḥmad b. 'Alī al-Qalqashandī, Ṣubḥ al-a'shā fī sinā'at al-inshā, ed. Muḥammad Shams al-Dīn (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr al-'Ilmiyya, 1987), xin, 126; and al-Maqrīzī, 161; (6) Bayt Laḥm (!) in al-Dhahabī, Siyar, n, 443; (7) 'Aynūn, ‘Fulāna’ and the place of Abraham's grave in al-Maqrīzī, 161; (8) Bayt Habrūn and Bayt 'Aynūn in Ibn Hazm, Jamharat al-nasab, ed. 'Abd al-Salām Hārūn (Cairo: Dar al-Ma'ārif, 1962), 422; and (9) Bayt 'Ayn and Jabrūn in Ibn Abī 'Āṣim, al-Āḥad wa'l-mathānī, ed. Basīm Fayṣal al-Jubāra (Riyadh: Dār al-Zayāta, 1991), V, 112.

15 On Rawḥ see, Crone, P., Slaves on horses (LondonCrossRefGoogle Scholar, 1980) s.v.; and I. Hasson, ‘Le chef judhamite Rawḥ ibn Zinbā'‘, Studio Islamica, 11, 1993, 95–122.

16 Ibn al-Athīr, Usd, I, 257; Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqi, Shu'ab al-īmān, ed. Muḥammad al-Sa'īId b. Bassouny Zaghlūl (Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, 1990), rv, 33–4 (no. 4273); al-Musharraf b. al-Murajja', Fadā'il Bayt al-Maqdis wa'l-Khatīl wa'l- Shām, ed. Ofer Livne-Kafri (Shfar'am: Dār al-Mashriq, 1995), 349 (no. 577); and Sulaymān b. Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī, al-Mu'jam al-kabīr, ed. Ḥamdī 'Abd al-Majīd al-Silfī (Mosul: Iḥya al-Turāth al-'Arabi, n.d.), II, 51.

17 al-Qalqashandī, Ṣubḥ al-a'shā, XIII, 126; al-Maqrīzī, ‘Daw'’ 160–61; Ibn Abī al-'Aṣim, al-Āḥad wa'l-mathānī, v, 12 (no. 2548); al-Musharraf b. al-Murajja', Faḍāil 347–8 (no. 576), and note the emphasis on the half brother Abū Hind in al-'Armirī, al-Riyād, 41; Muḥammad al-Mutī'ī, Sūat al-fatwa (Būlāq: Dār al-Tabā'a al-Fu'ādiyya, n.d.), 4 (though biographical information about Abu Hind is sparse, he is probably mentioned in Abū Nu'aym al-Iṣfahānī, Ḥilyat al-awliyā' (Cairo: Maktabat al-Khānjī, 1935), v, 187). Ibn Ḥazm, Jamhara, 422 appears to support this version without quoting it directly. In a related version, though one free from any familial influences, Tamīm comes from Syria with a select group of Christians who convert to Islam. These include such luminaries as Baḥīra the monk, and Abrāha (the Ethiopian governor of the Yemen?): al-Majlisī, Biḥār, XXII, 47.

18 Krenkow, F., ‘The grant of land by Muḥammad to Tamīm al-Dārī’, Islamica, 1, 19241925, 530–32;Google Scholar Watt, Muḥammad at Medina, 112; I. Hasson, ‘The penetration of the Arab tribes in Palestine during the first century of the Hijra’, Cathedra, 32, 1984, 61 [in Hebrew]. Dormer alone, (Conquests, 97) appears to accept the idea of Muḥammad granting a deed to somewhere far outside his control, for which he has been criticized by E. Landau-Tessaron, 'Review of Dornner's Early Islamic conquests', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 6, 1985, 508–9, 31 (a similar case). M. Gil, ‘Processes of settlement: Arab tribes in the first Muslim century’, Cathedra, 32, 1984, 67 claims that Tamīm received tax collecting rights from the Prophet, not a deed to land.

19 For example, al-SuyūṠī, al-Khasā'is al-kubrā (Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, 1985), II, 45–46; and among modern scholars: Iḥsān 'Abbās, 'Fatḥ Bilād al-Shām', in Fourth International Conference on Bilād al-Shām (Arabic section, 2nd. symposium, part 2; ed. Muḥammad 'Adnān BakhṠīt, (Amman: al-Jamī'a al-Urdunniyya, 1987), 17, and ṣāliḥ Dāradka, ‘Muqaddimāt fī Fatḥ Bilād al-Shām’, I.e., pp. 116–17, among many examples.

20 al-Maqrīzī, ‘Daw'’, 161; Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-GhayṠī, al-Jawāb al-qawīm 'an al-su'āl al-muta'lliq bi-iqtā' al-sayyid Tamīm, ed. Ḥasan 'Abd al-Raḥmān Salāwadī (Jerusalem: Markaz al-Abḥāth al-Islāmiyya, 1986), 34–5 (who gives the tradition the mark of munkar (despicable)); and Ibn 'Asākir, Ta'rīkh, III, 534. In addition there are other variations: see Ibn Sa'd, Ṭabaqāt, VII, 286; and Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-Balādhurī, Futūh al-buldān, ed. 'Abdallāh Anīs al-Ṭibā'a (Beirut: Mu'ssasat al-Ma'ārif, n.d.), 176.

21 One should note that one possible interpretation of Tamīm's nisba, Dārī, is that it is connected to a perfume manufacturing house in Mecca: al-Sam'ānī, Ansab, II, 443. See in general, Crone, P., Meccan trade and the rise of Islam (Princeton, 1987).Google Scholar

22 On him see Ibn Ḥajar, Isāba, II: 467. Muslim scholars in general denied him the rank of ṣaḥabī since he died a Christian.

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28 , al-Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, ed. 'Abd al-'Azīz, al-Dūrī (Beirut: Dār al-Nashr, 1978), III, 294–95.Google Scholar

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33 al-Zubayrī, Mus'ab, Kitāb nasab Quraysh, ed. E., Lévi-Provençal (Cairo: Dār al-Ma'ārif, 1953), 276.Google Scholar

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36 'Ubayd, Abū, Kitāb al-amwāl, ed. Muḥammad Khalīl, Harās (Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, 1986), 274–5.Google Scholar

37 al-'Amirī, Riyād, 41.

38 Ibn Ḥajar, Iṣāba, I, 184.

39 Sa'd, IbnTa'rīkhGoogle Scholar, Ṭabaqāt,Ta'rīkh VII, 286;Google Scholar, al-Ṣafadī, al-Wāfī, X, 408;Google Scholar and al-Athīr, Ibn, Usd, I, 256.Google Scholar

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42 Encyclopedia of Islam (new ed.) s.v. ‘al-Khalīl’ (M. Sharon). See now Musharraf b. al-Murajja', Fadā'il, 331ff.

43 al-Ghaytī, Jawāb, 34; and al-Maqrīzī, ‘Daw'’, 166.

44 al-Balādhurī, Futūh, 176; al-Maqrīzī, ‘Daw'’, 164; 'Abdallah b. 'Abd al-'Azīz al-Bakrī al-Andalusī, Mu'jam mā staājama, ed. MuṣṠafā al-Sāqī (Cairo: Lajnat al-Ta'līf, 1947), II, 420; and al-GhayṠī, Jawāb, 34.

45 'Asakir, Ibn, Ta'rīkh, VIII, 229;Google Scholar and al-GhayṠī, Jawāb, 38 (correct dimash to Dimashq).

46 Despite a search in the relevant bibliographical material, I was unable to locate this man.

47 al-Maqrīzī, ‘Daw'’, 174; al-GhayṠī, Jawāb, 44–5; and Mujīr al-Dīn al-Ḥanbalī, al-Uns al-jalīl bi-ta'rīkh al-Quds wa'l-Khalīl (Amman: Maktabat al-Muḥtaṣib, 1973), II, 82.

48 Ayalon, D., ‘Payment in Mamluk military society’, Journal of the Economic and Social; History of the Orient, 1, 1958, 292CrossRefGoogle Scholar (quoting from Muhī al-Dīn 'Abd al-Zāhir, Sīrat al-ẓāhir Baybars). One of the few times when the Tamīmī Dārī family is mentioned is in a quote in al-Athīr, Ibn, Ta'rīkh, ed. Tomberg, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1864– repr.), X, 560,Google Scholar whose source is stated to be Ḥamza b. Asad al-Tamīmī, and it is said there that he composed a Ta'rīkh. It is rather curious, though, that the incident mentioned (the discovery of the non-decomposed bodies of the Patriarchs) must have taken place during Crusader rule when the Tamīmī family was not present (they went into exile).

49 Ayalon, 291.