
1922.] Dihyah al-Kalbi. 277 
commissions, both to the Emperor Heraclius. In the former 
instance it is not clear why he was sent, but it is likely that he 
of the 6th Hijri year (Tab., I, 1555). 
he above narration is supplemented by one purporting to 
proceed from certain well-informed persons of Judham (Tab., I, 
1740, 19 ff.), according to whom however the scene of the dis- 
aster that befell Dahyah was the Valley of Shanar or Shinar, in 
Yaqut given as Shinan. Here he was looted of all his posses- 
sions by Al-Hunayd and his son ‘Us (‘Arid, in Caetani’s 
Annali, 697; see Tab , 1, 1741, n. /), of the Dulay‘, a branch of 
the tribe Judham. News of the unfortunate assault reached 
a small party of the Bani Dubayb. another branch of 
Judham, whose chieftain Rifa‘ah b. Zayd al-Judhami had re- 
cently had a personal interview with the Prophet, and on his 
return had won his tribal subdivision of Dubayb among others 
to Islam; in this matter Dihyah had played a part, though a 
minor one, inasmuch as he is said to have befriended one of 
meet Al-Hunayd and his son, and fought them and those with 
them for the restoration of the looted property. In this they 
were successfal, and made it over to Dihyah. He 
still dissatisfied, and went off in high dudgeon to Madinah, where 
he sought out the Prophet and demanded the lives of the two 
leading miscreants. His suit prospered, for Zayd b. Harithah 
was told off with a force against them, and in the ensuing en- 
counter Al-Hunayd and his son lost their lives (Ibn H., 976; 
Tab., I, 1742). 
His second commission was to the same quarter as the first, 
but its object was of an entirely different nature. In Dhu’!- 
Hijjah of this 6th year of the Hijrah six envoys were sent to 
the rulers of neighbouring lands inviting them to acceptance of 
the new faith. Three of the six were of the number of them 
that ‘‘ companied with” Muhammad, and Dihyah was one of 
these three intimates (Tab., J, 1559). He was entrusted 
