Abu Layla ʿUday ibn Rabīʿa ibn al-Ḥāriṯ at-Taḡlibiyy ( ar, أَبُو لَيْلَى عُدَيّ بْن رَبِيعَة بْن الْحَارِث التَّغْلِبِيّ; 443 – 531 CE), also known by the nicknames al-Muhalhil ("he who finely weaves poems") and az-Zīr ("the philander"), was a
pre-Islamic poet and warrior born in
Najd
Najd ( ar, نَجْدٌ, ), or the Nejd, forms the geographic center of Saudi Arabia, accounting for about a third of the country's modern population and, since the Emirate of Diriyah, acting as the base for all unification campaigns by the H ...
. He led the
Banu Taghlib tribe in the forty-year long
War of Basus
The Basus (or Basous) War (often written al-Basus War; ''ḥarb al-basūs'') was a 40-year conflict between two cousin tribes in Arabia of Late Antiquity which was started by the killing of a camel owned by woman named Al Basus under the protecit ...
.
He was the maternal uncle of fellow poet
Imru' al-Qais,
and also the grandfather of
Amr ibn Kulthum through his second daughter Layla.
References
443 births
531 deaths
5th-century Arabs
6th-century Arabic poets
Epic poets
Arab Christians
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