Abū Dhuʾayb al-Hudhalī, Khuwaylid b. Khālid (d. c. 28/649), was the greatest poet of the Arabian tribe Hudhayl and one of the most original poets of his time. About his life little is known with certainty. He probably embraced Islam together with his tribe in 9/630 and later emigrated to Egypt, where he lost his five sons to the plague. In 26/647 he took part in a campaign into Ifrīqiya and died on his way back to Medina, accompanying ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr, charged with delivering