Khidāsh b. Zuhayr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weipert, Reinhard
Leiden
Brill
(780 words)
Abū Zuhayr Khidāsh b. Zuhayr al-ʿĀmirī was a pre-Islamic poet who lived in the late sixth century C.E. His nisba relates to the ʿĀmir b. Ṣaʿṣaʿa, a subgroup of the Hawāzin tribe, and he was a contemporary of his cousin, the Muʿallaqa poet Labīd b. Rabīʿa. Evidence for this period comes from his poems that centre around the wars called al-Fijār between the Quraysh and the Kināna on the one side and, on the other, the Hawāzin and other tribes of the Qays ʿAylān. Khidāsh uttered