{
 "id": "person/al-harith-ibn-abd-kulal",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "al-harith-ibn-abd-kulal",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الحارث بن عبد كلال",
  "en": "al-Harith ibn Abd Kulal"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من ملوك حمير الذين كتبوا إلى النبي بإسلامهم مقدمه من تبوك، وكتب إليهم النبي كتابه.",
  "en": "One of the kings of Himyar who wrote to the Prophet announcing their Islam on his return from Tabuk, and to whom the Prophet addressed his letter."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "الحارث بن عبد كلال"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "politician"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "ruler",
    "toward": "group/himyar",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "من ملوك حمير وأقيالها (ابن هشام ص235).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0631~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "كتب بإسلامه مقدم النبي من تبوك (ابن هشام ص235).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0631~"
    },
    "note": "أعلن إسلامه في كتاب ملوك حمير (ابن هشام ص235).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 235-237",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-9b"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa",
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 235-237"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الحارث بن عبد كلال، من ملوك [[group/himyar|حمير]] وأقيالها. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "كتاب ملوك حمير",
     "markdown": "كتب هو وغيره من ملوك حمير إلى [[person/muhammad|النبي]] بإسلامهم عند مقدمه من تبوك، وكتب إليهم النبي كتابه. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235} انظر [[event/letter-of-himyar-kings|كتاب ملوك حمير]]. وتاريخ الكتاب مقدَّر بنحو سنة 631م.\n\nإسلامه هنا مسجّل بأساس الرواية. ويذكر المصدر الثاني، «الرحيق المختوم»، الموضوع نفسه، ولا تتضمن البيانات صفحة محددة له."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-harith-ibn-abd-kulal",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Harith ibn Abd Kulal, one of the kings and crowned chiefs of [[group/himyar|Himyar]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The letter of the kings of Himyar",
     "markdown": "He and other kings of Himyar wrote to [[person/muhammad|the Prophet]] announcing their Islam when he returned from Tabuk, and the Prophet wrote his letter to them. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235} See [[event/letter-of-himyar-kings|the letter of the kings of Himyar]]. The date of the letter is estimated at about 631 CE.\n\nHis Islam is recorded here on the basis of the report. The second source, \"Al-Rahiq al-Makhtum\", deals with the same subject, and the data give no specific page for it."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-harith-ibn-abd-kulal",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "الحارث بن عبد کلال، [[group/himyar|حمیر]] کے بادشاہوں اور اقیال میں سے۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حمیر کے بادشاہوں کا خط",
     "markdown": "وہ اور حمیر کے دوسرے بادشاہ تبوک سے نبی کی واپسی پر ان کی آمد کے وقت [[person/muhammad|نبی]] کے پاس اپنے اسلام لانے کی خبر لکھ کر بھیجتے ہیں، اور نبی نے ان کی طرف اپنا خط لکھا۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa p.235} دیکھیے [[event/letter-of-himyar-kings|حمیر کے بادشاہوں کا خط]]۔ اس خط کی تاریخ تقریباً سنہ 631ء کے لگ بھگ اندازہ کی گئی ہے۔\n\nان کا اسلام یہاں اصل روایت کی بنیاد پر درج ہے۔ دوسرا ماخذ «الرحیق المختوم» وہی موضوع بیان کرتا ہے، مگر میوزیم کے ڈیٹا میں اس کا کوئی مخصوص صفحہ درج نہیں۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-harith-ibn-abd-kulal",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-15",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/himyar",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/letter-of-himyar-kings",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "من أصحاب الكتاب",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/al-numan-qayl-dhi-ruayn",
  "person/nuaym-ibn-abd-kulal",
  "person/zura-dhu-yazan",
  "event/mission-of-muadh-to-yemen",
  "work/letter-to-the-kings-of-himyar",
  "event/letter-of-himyar-kings",
  "group/himyar",
  "person/malik-ibn-murra-al-rahawi"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}