Bostanaï Guriya Ben Hanina Ben Haminaï Ha-David 1st Exilarch of the 3rd Dynasty

• Preferred Name: Bostanaï Guriya Ben Hanina Ben Haminaï Ha-David 1st Exilarch of the 3rd Dynasty^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Religion: Gaon of the Pumbedita AcademyABT 660
  
• Religion: 1st Exilarch of the 3rd Dynasty of JewsBET 642 AND 660
  
• Death: 660 in Baghdād, Iraque at LATI: N3.3167 LONG: E4.3667
  
• FSID: LRQD-K29
  
• Birth: 589 in Pumbedita, Babylonia, Iraq at LATI: N3 LONG: E4
  
• Religion: 37th Exilarch of the 2nd Dynasty of JewsBET 642 AND 660
  
• Burial: 665 in Pumbedita, Al Fallūjah, Al Anbār, Iraq at LATI: N3.234 LONG: E3.7658
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: founder of the Bostonaite Line
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Rabbi Mustanai
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Bustanai "ראש גלות" ben Haninai
  Nacido en 600 en Babilonia, Mesopotamia, Imperio Persa
  Hijo de Haninai ha David ben Hofnai
  Esposo de Adoa bat Assad
  Esposo de Izdunda Sassanide de Persia
  Padre de Hanini Bar 'Adoi David Bar 'Adoi, Haninai Baradai David y Hisdai Shahrijar ben Bustanai David
  Fallecido en 670 en Bagdad, califato omeya
  
  The last Persian king [Chosroes II is the last great Persian king], inimical to the Jews, decided to extinguish the royal house of David, no one being left of that house but a young woman whose husband had been killed shortly after his marriage [the Exilarch Haninai's widow]. Then the king dreamed he was in a garden ("bostan"), where he uprooted the trees and broke the branches, and, as he was lifting up his ax against a little root, an old man snatched the ax away from him and gave him a severe blow that almost killed him, saying: "Are you not satisfied with having destroyed all the beautiful trees of my garden, that you now try to destroy also the last root? Truly you deserve that your memory perish from the earth."
  
  The king there upon promised to guard the last plant of the garden very carefully. No one but an old Jewish sage was able to interpret the dream, and he said: "The garden represents the house of David, all of whose descendants you have destroyed except a young woman with her unborn baby. The old man you saw was David, to whom you promised that his house should be renewed by this boy." The Jewish sage, who was the father of the young woman, brought her to the king, and she was assigned rooms fitted up with princely splendor, where she gave birth to a boy, who received th ename "Bostanai" from the garden ("bostan") which the king had seen in his dream. His name, Bustenai, is from bustan, which means" orchard." Also called Bostanaï.
  
  He was born circa 590. His father was killed in 589, before he was born. He was the son of Exilarch Haninai I ben Hofnai beni David and N. N. bat Hananiahmi-Sura. He was recognised the heads of the two principal academies of Babylonian Jewry, and through him by the Muslim caliphate, as final arbiters of Jewish law and the religious heads of all Jewish communities under Muslim rule circa 640. He was the first Exilarch to be recognized by Arab rule in 642. He was recognized as Exilarch, leader of the Jews, in return for the valuable assistance of the Babylonian Jews in Caliph Omar's campaigns against Persiain 642. He as the exilarch, both in bearing and in mode of life, was considered a prince. He was married to King Yazdigird III's daughter Dara in a marriage arranged by the establisher of Islam, Ali, Mohammed's son-in-law, the first Imam and the establisher of Islam in 657. He married Izdundad, Princess of Iran, daughter of Yazdgard III, Shah of Iran, in 657; He died in 670.
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  Also known as Guriah Rosh Golah.
  First Exilarch under Arab dominion, 7th century. Bostanai (Hebrew: בוסתנאי), also transliterated as Bustenai or Bustnay, was the first Exilarch under Arab rule. He lived in the early-to-middle of the 7th century, and died about 660 AD. The name is Aramaized from the Persian bustan or bostan (Persian : بوستان‎), meaning "Garden".
  
  Bostanai is the only Dark Age Babylonian Exilarch of whom anything more than a footnote is known. He is frequently made the subject of Jewish legends. According to the Maaseh Beth David, Bostanai was confirmed in his office as exilarch by the Caliph Ali, no earlier then 656 AD. The Caliph granted him the authority to appoint civil judges, and heads of the rabbinical academies at Sura, Pumbedita and Nehardea. Bostanai was the posthumous son of a former exilarch, Haninai and his wife who is known as 'the daughter of Hananiah' in the Seder Olam Zuta, of whom little to nothing is known historically.
  
  Hai Gaon seems to identify Bostanai with Haninai, and tells that he was given for wife a daughter of the Persian king Chosroes II (died 628), by the Calif Omar (died 644). Abraham ibn Daud, however, says that it was the last Sassanid king, Yezdegerd (born 624; died 651-652), who gave his daughter to Bostanai. But in that case it could have been only Calif Ali (656-661), and not Omar, who thus honored the exilarch. It is known also that Ali gave a friendly reception to the contemporary Gaon Isaac; and it is highly probable, therefore, that he honored the exilarch in certain ways as the official representative of the Jews. The name of his Jewish wife is unknown in any record, and there are conflicting reports regarding the names of his children. A certain Rabbi Zakkai is mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela as being his son, albeit only in passing. Another son, Hasdai I, is mentioned in the Seder Olam Zuta as succeeding him to the office of exilarch, as well as Baradoi, both children of his Jewish wife.
  
  Bostanai allegedly had three children by his Persian wife, at least one son, whose name is given as Shahriyar would go on to be the ancestor of other exilarchs. Later in life Bostanai would assume the role of Gaon of the rabbinical academy at Pumbedita.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostanai
  
  === Bustanai ben Haninai from:JVL ===
  Bustanai ben Ḥaninai
  BUSTANAI BEN ḤANINAI (c. 618–670), the first exilarch in Babylonia after the Arab conquest. According to legend, toward the end of Persian rule in Babylonia the king decreed that all the descendants of the house of David be killed, including the exilarch Ḥaninai, whose wife was pregnant at the time. Later the king had a dream in which he saw himself hewing fruit trees in a grove (bustan). Before the last tree was felled, a venerable old man appeared before him and struck him on the forehead. On the advice of his courtiers the king consulted a Jewish sage concerning the meaning of this dream. The sage, who was Ḥaninai's father-in-law, interpreted that the old man represented King David trying to prevent the extermination of his descendants. The king then summoned Ḥaninai's widow to his court and supplied her with all her needs. When she bore a son, she named him Bustanai in memory of the king's dream. When Bustanai grew up, he appeared in court before the king and the wisdom he displayed on that occasion amazed all who were present. Thereafter the king honored him and appointed him exilarch, to the great satisfaction of the Jews. After the Arabs had conquered Babylonia, the Caliph Omar confirmed Bustanai as exilarch; he gave Azdaudar, one of the captive daughters of Chosroes II, king of Persia, to Bustanai in marriage, while the caliph himself married her sister, thereby giving de facto recognition to Bustanai as one of the successors of the kings of Persia. (According to the Sefer ha-Kabbalah of Abraham ibn Daud, it was the daughter of Yezdegerd III, the son of Chosroes, and the caliph was ʿAli.) This legendary story throws light upon the course of events after the death of Bustanai. The Persian princess bore Bustanai three sons (according to another version, five sons). When Bustanai died, however, his other sons by his Jewish wives sought to treat their brothers by the Persian princess as slaves, because their mother had not been converted to Judaism. The scholars of the yeshivot, however, decided in favor of Izdundad, and her relatives, who held high offices in the government, also decided in her favor. The first dayyan who ruled that the descendants of the Persian wife were legitimate Jews was Haninai in the ninth century. The eldest son of Bustanai and the Persian woman even married a daughter of a chief dayyan. Nevertheless the question of the legitimacy of her sons remained a subject of controversy in the halakhic literature of the geonic period and thereafter. Sherira Gaon in the 10th century made a point of stressing that he himself was from the house of David but not a descendant of Bustanai. Bustanai was the progenitor of the Babylonian exilarchs of the period of Arab rule. His first successors were the offspring of his son born to one of his Jewish wives. Among the offspring of his Persian wife who attained the office of exilarch was Zakkai, a fourth-generation descendant of Bustanai. There was a longstanding rivalry between the descendants of Bustanai and the old geonim of Ereẓ Israel. R. Abraham ibn Daud belived that the Persian woman converted to Judaism. Concerning the age of Bustanai at the time of the Arab conquest, there are different versions. One says that he was 35 years old. According to other sources, the name of Bustanai's father was Kofnai. It seems that Bustanai was very active in the messianic movement before the Arab conquest of Babylonia. Arab sources note that he was in Medina in c. 623. Bustanai has other names and nicknames in Arabic and Christian sources. It seems that at the beginning of his activity he fought with the Muslim tribes, but he decided to sign an agreement with them in which he represented the Jews of Babylonia. At that time he received from the Muslim conqueror the Persian woman, an annual rent, and recognition as an exilarch. Bustanai was killed in a battle in 638. His sons by his Jewish wife were Hisdai (Gamil) and Bardai (Haled).
  
  BIBLIOGRAPHY:
  Ma'aseh Bustanai (on the various editions see Benjacob, Oẓar, 353, no. 1814; Devir, 1 (1923), 159n; Seder Olam Zuta (1865); B.M. Lewin (ed.), Iggeret R. Sherira Gaon (1944), appendix, xiv–xv; Tykocinski, in: Devir, 1 (1923), 145–79; Bruell, Jahrbuecher, 2 (1876), 102–12; Lazarus, ibid., 10 (1890), 24ff.; Graetz, Gesch, 5 (18953), 113ff.; Graetz, Hist, 6 (1949), index S.V. Bostanaï; Margoliouth, in: JQR, 14 (1902), 303–7; M.J. bin Gorion, Der Born Judas, 5 (Ger., 1921), 90–102, 300; Marx, in: Livre d'hommage S. Poznański (1927), 76–81. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. Gil, Be-Malkhut Ishma'el, 1 (1997), 58–80.
  
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• m. ABT 644
• m. ABT 624 in Baghdad, Iraq

1. Gurdanshah ben Bostanai, Prince of Gilan, b. ABT 635 in Baghdād, Baghdād, Iraq     d. 676 in Gilan, Iran
2. Haninai II Bar Adoï ben Bustanai Ha-David 3rd Exilarch, b. ABT 628 in Babylon, Iraq     d. ABT 689 in Babylon, Iraq
3. Shahrijar ben Bustanai 1st Prince of Tabaristan, b. ABT 630 in Iran     d. ABT 690
4. Hisdai ben Bostanai, 2nd Exilarch I, b. ABT 620 in Persia, Iran     d. 685

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