i ee 
20. Dihyah al-Kalbi. 
By A. H. Hartzy. 
He is usually referred to as such, or as Dihyah b. Khali- 
fah al-Kalbi. His lineage is given by Ibn Sa‘d (Tabagat, IV, 
I, 184) as :— 
« * oo si Go, we 0% 7? 
© ESI 2 AB Seyet yt 04} crt DLAs Gy 595 ys ABE Gy, has 
FA a ais 
BOS cert BE OM 5S rt 59% Cr ASI yoke Gyr 84 Lys pole Cyt Fle Oy; 92 y 
Po 
oo a s * a . ws 
beet ort alah yp AA yt By gy Crt IS Got p93 Ct Boas) Co GM! 085 
oe 
x Kcles ‘oy valsJ} (rd 
Tabari (J'a’rikh, (11, 2349) omits wt,> 2 but agrees other- 
wise ; see also de Perceval’s Essai sur’ hist. d. Arabes, Tabl. 
III, and ‘Umdaiw'l-Qari,’ p. 93. 
is name is usually pronounced Dihyah, accepted as the 
better form, but the word dahyah is also well-known (Nawawi, 
Tahdhibw’l-’ Asma’, 239), and his name is occasionally so 
written, e.g. Tab., I, 1741, and alternatively in Tbn Hisham, 
685, 758, Tab., I, 2093. 
He was of the Kalb tribe which early moved north out of 
Yemen, and settled in the north of the peninsula close to the 
Syrian frontier (Perceval, I, 214; Nicholson’s Lit. Hist. of 
the Arabs, 199, n. 2; also Caetani, Carta, II, 1, 464, of the 
Annali). The place and year of his birth are not stated, but 
it is probable that he was born in the settlement of his tribe 
near the border of Syria, for though Sam‘ani says he settled in 
Egypt, and though his tomb is said to be at Al-Qarafah there, 
it will probably be concluded from the facts of his life-history 
and from the consideration of the fourfold tradition, Syrian, 
Egyptian, Palestinian and Persian, as to his last resting-place, 
that as the northern half of Arabia and later Syria were the 
ee of his activities his connection with them was life- 
ong. 
He was a prominent Companion of the Prophet, but 
probably his junior in years, for it is asserted that he long 
survived him, and died in the reign of Mu‘awiyah (r. 41- 
A.H.). 
he events of the early period of his life are unknown ; 
for chroniclers his history begins with his declaration of adher- 

' Occasionally appears-as al-Khazraj, e.g. Ibn Sa‘d, VIII, 114; ¢/- 
Tab., III, 2349, n. f. 
