Abū Shurayḥ al-Tamīmī Aws b. Ḥajar (sixth century C.E.) was a pre-Islamic Arab poet. Since Aws was called the faḥl Muḍar and regarded as the best poet of the Banū Tamīm before the rise of al-Nābigha and Zuhayr, it is astonishing that almost no concrete facts about his life have come down to us. Nevertheless we may conclude from his relations to other poets and to some of the Lakhmid kings, especially ʿAmr b. Hind, that he was born between about 520 and 535 C.E.