{{Short description|Sahabah}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = 'Adi ibn Hatim at-Tayy <br /> عدي بن حاتم الطائي | image = | alt = | pronunciation = | birth_date = 572 | birth_place = | death_date = 687 (aged 115) | death_place = | death_cause = | children = | father = | mother = | spouse = | relatives = }}
'''Adi ibn Hatim al-Tai''' ({{Langx|ar|عدي بن حاتم الطائي|ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī}}) was a leader of the Arab tribe of Tayy, and one of the companions of prophet Muhammad. He was the son of the poet Hatim al-Tai.<ref>''The Living Prophet'' by Syed Sulaiman Nadvi. pp. 106</ref> Adi remained antagonistic to Islam for about twenty years until he converted to Islam <ref>''Mohammed and the Rise of Islam'' By David Samuel Margoliouth. pp. 437-438</ref> in 630 (9th year of Hijri).<ref>''Muhammad: The Messenger of Islam'' By Hajjah Amina Adil. pp. 530</ref>
== Biography == Adiyy inherited the domain of his father and was confirmed in the position by the Tayy people. He received a quarter of any amount they stole in raiding expeditions.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}
=== Before Islam === Adi said that before being preached to by Muhammad he practiced Rakusiyya,<ref name="Adil Salahi">{{cite book |last1=Salahi |first1=Adil |title=Muhammad: Man and Prophet|isbn=978-0-86037-429-9 |date=2010 |publisher=Kube Publishing Limited |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S7FpAwAAQBAJ&dq=qadisiyyah&pg=PT695 |access-date=9 October 2021}}</ref> a syncretic sect which adhered to teachings of both Christianity and Judaism,<ref name="Adil Salahi" /> or a syncretic mixture of Christianity and Sabian religion.<ref name="Hawramani">{{cite web |last1=Hawramani |first1=Ikram |title=الركوسية |url=http://arabiclexicon.hawramani.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9/ |website=Hawramani.com |publisher=Ikram Hawramani |access-date=20 December 2021 |date=1998 |quote=Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, al-Mu'jam al-Wasīṭ (1998) mediator lexicon of a group of authors :(الركوسية) فرقة لَهَا دين وَمذهب بَين النَّصَارَى وَالصَّابِئِينَ وَفِي حَدِيث عدي بن حَاتِم أَنه أَتَى النَّبِي صلى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسلم فَقَالَ لَهُ (إِنَّك من أهل دين يُقَال لَهُم الركوسية)}}</ref>
Clément Huart has theorized this sect was linked to Manichaeism due to its syncretic nature.<ref name="Clement Huart">{{cite book |last1=Huart |first1=Clement |title=A history of Arabic literature |date=1966 |publisher=Khayats |pages=478 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yAOAAAAYAAJ&q=a%20historic%20arabic%20huart%20clement |access-date=9 October 2021}}</ref> According to Khalid Basalamah, the sect was regarded as heretical by the official Eastern Orthodox Church of the Byzantine Empire, so Adi practiced it in secrecy, fearing persecution from his Byzantine overlord.<ref name="Khalid al-Basalamah">{{cite web |last1=al-Basalamah |first1=Khalid Abdullah Zeed |title=Sirah Nabawiyyah |url=https://www.khbofficial.com/video |website=KhB Official |publisher=KhB Official |access-date=9 October 2021 |archive-date=3 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203212013/https://www.khbofficial.com/video |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He also identified himself as being a Hanif.<ref>https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:2953b</ref>
=== After Islam === After converting to Islam,<ref name="Adil Salahi" /> he joined the Islamic army at the time of caliph Abu Bakr. He was a commander of the Islamic army sent to invade Iraq under the command of Khalid ibn al-Walid.
Adi participated in the Khalid desert crossing from Iraq to the Levant,<ref name="Siyar A'lam Nubala">{{cite book |last1=ad-Dhahabi |first1=Shams ad-Din |title=Siyar A'lam Nubala |publisher=Islamweb |location=Islamweb |url=https://www.islamweb.net/ar/library/index.php?page=bookcontents&idfrom=303&idto=303&bk_no=60&ID=253 |access-date=20 December 2021}}</ref> and fought on the side of Ali ibn Abi Talib, at the Battle of Camel and Battle of Siffin.<ref>Muhammad Raji Hassan, Kinas (2012). ''Ensiklopedia Biografi Sahabat Nabi.'' Jakarta: Penerbit Zaman. ISBN 978-979-024-295-1</ref>
Adi was a hunter and narrated multiple hadith in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim on the rulings of it, including the use of tools and dogs.<ref name="Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 67:">{{cite web |last1=Khan |first1=M. Muhsin |title=Hunting, Slaughtering |url=https://www.iium.edu.my/deed/hadith/bukhari/067_sbt.html |website=www.iium.edu.my/v2/ |publisher=International Islamic University Malaysia, Sahih Bukhari |access-date=30 December 2025}}</ref><ref name="The Book of Hunting, Slaughter, and what may be Eaten">{{cite web|last1=at-Tirmidzi |first1=Muhammad |last2=Nasiruddin al-Albani |first2=Muhammad |last3=an-Naisaburi |first3=Abul Husain Muslim |last4=ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī |first4=Muḥammad |last5=al-Sijistānī |first5=Abū Dāwūd (Dā’ūd) Sulaymān |last6=ibn Hanbal |first6=Ahmad |last7=Ibn Mājah al-Rabʻī al-Qazwīnī |first7=Abū ʻAbdillāh Muḥammad |title=Hadith |url=https://sunnah.com/muslim/34 |website=Sunnah.com |publisher=Darussalam;al Adabul Mufrad; Sahih Bukhari; Sahih Muslim; Jami' at-Tirmidhi; Sunan Abi Dawud; Sunan Ibn Majah; Silsalat al-Hadith as-Sahihah |access-date=30 December 2025}}</ref>
== Legacy == Bukhari, Muslim, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and others<ref name="Hadith narrated by Adi ibn Hatim">{{cite web |last1=at-Tirmidzi |first1=Muhammad |last2=Nasiruddin al-Albani |first2=Muhammad |last3=an-Naisaburi |first3=Abul Husain Muslim |last4=ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī |first4=Muḥammad |last5=al-Sijistānī |first5=Abū Dāwūd (Dā’ūd) Sulaymān |last6=ibn Hanbal |first6=Ahmad |last7=Ibn Mājah al-Rabʻī al-Qazwīnī |first7=Abū ʻAbdillāh Muḥammad |title=Hadith |url=https://sunnah.com/search?q=adi+hatim |website=Sunnah.com |publisher=Darussalam;al Adabul Mufrad; Sahih Bukhari; Sahih Muslim; Jami' at-Tirmidhi; Sunan Abi Dawud; Sunan Ibn Majah; Silsalat al-Hadith as-Sahihah |access-date=9 October 2021}}</ref> have attributed hadiths to him.
== See also == * List of Sahabah
==References== {{reflist|2}}
==Further reading== *https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/adi-b-hatim-SIM_0307?s.num=0&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-2&s.q=Adi+ibn+Hatim
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