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Ash’ab (Arabic:أشعب) , is a comic character who was known for greed and had many jokes that are still told in popular traditional stories.[1]
His life
Ash'ab Ibn Jubayr was born in the ninth year of the hijra, and his father was from Al-Mamalik Uthman ibn Affan, and Ash'ab was aged until the days of the caliphate of al-Mahdi.
He was raised by Asma bint Abi Bakr, Dhat Al-natiqayn, so he was polite, recited the Qur’an, memorized the hadith, and practiced asceticism, and narrated on the authority of Ikrimah and on the authority of Aban bin Othman bin Affan and others, but his sense of humor prevented people from taking his narration seriously until they said about him: “The hadith was lost between Ash’ab and Ikrimah.” The story summary is that Ash’ab said: “Ikrimah told us on the authority of Ibn Abbas that the Messenger of God Mohammed peace be upon him said: “A believer is not without two traits.” He stopped talking for a second, and he had been told that: "What are they?" He said: “The first was forgotten by Ikrimah, and I forgot the second.”
It was narrated from Abdullah bin Ja'far, he was the best of the ten funny people, he reads well, he had a good voice, the books of literature told him anecdotes showing his keenness, and greed, and the right was mixed up with the wrong so that the researcher couldn’t find this character who made people laugh with his anecdotes, but the fame of Ashaab did not stand at a certain era or a certain place, here is Ashaab still exists even in Persian literature and he was known for intelligence.
Ash’ab had a good voice, was good at singing and earned money from it, and had a good sense of humor, was quick to joke, very keen and inclined to intrude, and because he was greedy, he mentioned it in the field in the "Amt’hal Al-arabs" and said: "Greed more than Ash’ab.”[2]
He lived for a long time and contacted many well-known personalities of his time, and he was moving desirably in his clan between the cities of Hejaz and Iraq, and he came to Baghdad in the days of al-Mansur Al-Abbasi and returned to Al-madinah and died there.
He died in 154 AH.
In literature and heritage
The name of Ashaab in the Abbasid era was associated with many stories, anecdotes and news stories in literature books, derived from the political and social situations and the life of the middle class in his time, and it is provides an honest picture of life back then. His anecdotes were very popular in the following eras, especially in popular circles.
References
- ↑ "البحوث | الموسوعة العربية". web.archive.org. 2016-04-28. Archived from the original on 2016-04-28. Retrieved 2022-06-11.CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
- ↑ "واي باك مشين", ويكيبيديا (in العربية), 2022-05-29, retrieved 2022-06-11
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