For instance, according to the Siyāsat-nāma, God forbade the fires of Hell to touch Ḥātem’s body because of his generosity and hospitality (Neẓām-al-Molk, p. Some classical Persian sources claim that Ḥātem’s generosity guaranteed his salvation in the next world despite the fact that he died an infidel. Travelers who camped near his grave would report hearing the sound of the maidens mourning all night long (Burton, IV, pp. Ḥātem’s tomb was built on a hilltop with two stone troughs representing the pots from which he fed the poor, as well as the statues of four mourning maidens. This munificence wins the assassin over, and even appeases the king when he hears about it (Bostān, pp. In the morning, on discovering that his guest is on a mission to kill him, Ḥātem offers his own life in order that he should not have to return empty-handed to his king. Ḥātem receives him as a guest, inviting him to spend the night in his home. A number of narratives speak of a king who feels so jealous of Ḥātem’s reputation for liberality that he sends an assassin to kill him. In one story Ḥātem receives a royal emissary while his flocks are in pasture, and so he resorts to slaughtering his own horse to feed his guest (Fozuni, p. According to some sources, even his mount was not safe from his liberality. It is said that Ḥātem used to give away everything he possessed except for his mount and weapons.

227), is mentioned in the verse of Manučehri (pp. 197), a Yemenite princess whom he successfully courted thanks to his generosity (Ḥamza, XVII, pp. Ḥātem’s wife Māwiya (or Māriya, Waṭwāṭ, p. It is also due to the fact that Persians first encountered Arabs from the Ṭayy tribe that they began to refer to Arabs in general by the term ṭāzi. They were among the strongest supporters of ʿAli and fought on his side in the Battle of the Camel and in Ṣeffin (cf. His tribe converted to Islam in 9/630, and remained Muslims even during the year 11/632, when a wave of apostasy swept across many Arab tribes (Jaʿfari, p. 104), which is why the people of Yemen were proud to consider him their own (Ebn ʿAbd-Rabbeh, IV, p. Ḥātem belonged to the tribe of Ṭayy in Yemen (Ebn Qotayba, p. Ḥātem is associated with the Lakhmid court in Ḥira (q.v.), especially under its most famous monarch Noʿ-mān b.

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