'Adi ibn Hatim

ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī, son of the proverbially generous pre-Islamic chief Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī and himself a leader of the tribe of Ṭayyiʾ who, on the rise of Islam, became a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. As a hinge between the Jāhilī virtue-world of his father and the Islamic order, he is placed in the latest pre-/early-Islamic ('muʿallaqāt-poetic') stratum the Arabian era-vocabulary affords.

Parentage

• Hatim al-Tai

Domains

• leadership of the Tayyi

Powers

• Led the tribe of Ṭayyiʾ across the coming of Islam
• Leads the tribe of Tayyi' across the coming of Islam
• Appointed by Muhammad to collect the alms of Tayyi' and Banu Asad

Sources

• Muḥammad ibn Saʿd, Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (9th c.), notice of ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī
• Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, Kitāb al-Aghānī, notices of Ḥātim and his son ʿAdī
• al-Iṣfahānī, Kitāb al-Aghānī; Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt — ʿAdī, son of Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī