Shurahbil ibn Amr () was a
Ghassanid
The Ghassanids ( ar, الغساسنة, translit=al-Ġasāsina, also Banu Ghassān (, romanized as: ), also called the Jafnids, were an Arab tribe which founded a kingdom. They emigrated from southern Arabia in the early 3rd century to the Levan ...
governor of the vassal Ghassanid confederation (authority) under the Byzantine Empire in southern
Syria region during the 7th century. He is also known to have arrested and killed the envoy of Muhammad, Harith ibn Amr Al-Azdi, who had a letter for the Ghassanid governor of
Bosra
Bosra ( ar, بُصْرَىٰ, Buṣrā), also spelled Bostra, Busrana, Bozrah, Bozra and officially called Busra al-Sham ( ar, بُصْرَىٰ ٱلشَّام, Buṣrā al-Shām), is a town in southern Syria, administratively belonging to the Dar ...
, Harith bin Abi Shimr al-Ghassani.
[Ghadanfar, Commanders of The Muslim Army p.34]
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7th-century Arabs
7th century in the Byzantine Empire
Arab history
7th-century monarchs in the Middle East
Ghassanids
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