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Amru bin Ma'adi Yakrib


Amr (Amru) ibn Maadi bin Yakrib al-Zubaidi al-Madhhiji was the last king of the kings of Yemen before Islam. he was from the Zubaid part of the House of Madhhij. He was very brave and he converted to Islam at time of Muhammad. When Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas asked the Khalifah Umar ibn al-Khattab to send him reinforcement for the battle of Qadisiyah. Umar replied: "I have sent you 2000 men: Amr bin Ma'adi Yakrib and Tulayhah al-Asadi. Each one of them counts as a thousand." He was mentioned by al-Hamdani in Geography of the Arabian Peninsula as a valiant knight of the Madhhij of Yemen.


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