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Al-Nabigha al-Ja'di
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Poet Al-Nābigha al-Jaʽdī ( Arabic : النابغة الجعدي, d. c. 60/680 or some years later) was an early Islamic poet. Abū l-ʽlā’ al-Maʽarrī, The Epistle of Forgiveness or A Pardon to Enter the Garden , ed. and trans. by Geert Jan van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler, 2 vols (New York: New York University Press, 2013-14), II 263 n. 651.
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early islamic poet
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arab poet and a companion of the prophet muhammad sallallahu ‘alaihi wa salam
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