Abu Layla ʿUday ibn Rabīʿa ibn al-Ḥāriṯ at-Taḡlibiyy (Arabic: أَبُو لَيْلَى عُدَيّ بْن رَبِيعَة بْن الْحَارِث التَّغْلِبِيّ; c. 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. He led the Banu Taghlib tribe in the forty-year long War of Basus.[1][2][3]

He was the maternal uncle of fellow poet Imru' al-Qais,[1] and also the grandfather of Amr ibn Kulthum through his second daughter Layla.

References

  1. ^ a b الزركلي, خير الدين (1926). الأعلام – الجزء 4 [Al-Aʿlām — Part 4]. p. 220. Archived from the original on 6 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  2. ^ "المهلهل بن ربيعة" [Al-Muhalhil ibn Rabīʿa]. Ma'ajm al-Shu'ara al-Arab (in Arabic). Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  3. ^ Weipert, Reinhard (1 January 2021). "al-Muhalhil". Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
Categories