Abū Aqīl Labīd ibn Rabīʿa ibn Mālik al-ʿĀmirī ( Arabic : أبو عقيل لَبيد بن ربيعة بن مالك العامِري ; c. 505 – c. 661) was an Arab poet from higher Nejd and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad .
3-572: He belonged to the Bani Amir , a division of the tribe of the Hawazin . In his younger years he was an active warrior, and his verse is largely concerned with inter-tribal disputes. Later, he was sent by a sick uncle to get a remedy from Muhammad at Medina and on this occasion was much influenced by a part of the Quran 's , shortest Surah, ' Al-Kawthar '. He accepted Islam soon after. One of his poems
6-580: A poet was the words of Labid" and "Verily, Everything except Allah is perishable and Umaiya bin As-Salt was about to be a Muslim (but he did not embrace Islam)." [Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhāri, The Book of Manners, Ḥadīth No. 3841] This article about a Middle Eastern poet is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bani Amir Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
9-531: Is contained in the Mu'allaqat . His muruwwa (virtue) is highlighted in the story that he vowed to feed people whenever the east wind began to blow, and to continue so doing until it stopped. Al-Walid 'Uqba, leader of the Kuffa, sent him one hundred camels to enable him to keep his vow. In an elegy composed for Nu'mh Mundhii, Labid wrote: Muhammad said of the first verse of the above eulogy: "The most true words said by
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