The Samsaama
The Samsaama (Arabic: الصمصامة, "killing on the spot")[1] was an Isu dagger. In the 860s, the Alamut Hidden One Basim Ibn Ishaq recovered it, the sword Shamshir-e Zomorrodnegar, and the armor set Milad's Outfit from the chamber underneath the Northern Oasis, trading Mysterious Shards he had taken from Tha'abeen members.[2]
Weapon statistics[edit | edit source]
{{#section:AC:CST/Weapons|"The Samsaama"}}| Dmg (max) | Def.Dmg (max) | Perk | Availability |
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| Description | |||
| Ancient magic steals life force for the wielder. | |||
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
The Samsaama is an alternate romanization of "as-Samsamah", the name of a sword famously wielded by the Arabian Zubaidi clan's cavalry commander Amr ibn Ma'adi Yakrib, a Companion of Muhammad who served in the Early Muslim conquests. Said to have been forged with nearly 3kg of iron mined from the mountain Jabal Nuqm in the Yemeni Sarawat Mountains, the sword was of as-Sayf al-Qala'i (السيف قلح, "Kalah sword") design, with gold inscriptions and green coloring on its cross guard, and has a storied provenance.[1]
As recounted in one of Amr's poems, as-Samsamah purportedly originated from the ancient ʿĀd tribe,[1] which was named for and claimed descent from the Hebrew prophet Noah's apocryphal great-great-grandson. Following the tribe's extinction in a wind storm for rejecting the prophet Hud's monotheistic teachings,[3] as-Samsamah was lost to memory until Qii Bayh ibn Qi Qayfan al-Akbar recovered it in the desert. as-Samsamah was then passed down generations until it reached the Himyarite Kingdom's ruler 'Alqamah ibn Dhi Qayfan, who then gifted it to Amr.[1]
Amr carried as-Samsamah with him during the Muslim conquest of the Levant and later gifted it to his fellow Companion Khalid ibn Sa'id as an award after Muhammad appointed Khalid as Yemen's administrator. After Khalid's death in the Battle of Marj al-Saffar, as-Samsamah was found beside his body. The Companion Mu'awiya I then took the sword and kept it upon founding the Umayyad Caliphate. It stayed with the Umayyad caliphs until the Abbasid Revolution, at which point it entered the possession of Abbasid caliphs like Al-Mahdi and Harun al-Rashid. By the late 9th century, it was allegedly possessed by Caliph al-Wathiq[1] after his unexpected death of edema in 847 CE.[4]
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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The Samsaama's inventory icon
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Amr ibn Ma'adi Yakrib on Wikipedia
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Mirage – The Calling
- ↑ ʿĀd on Wikipedia
- ↑ al-Wathiq on Wikipedia
