Abū Yazīd ʿAmr b. Qamīʾa al-Ḍubaʿī (fl. first half, sixth century C.E.) was a pre-Islamic Arab poet of the Banū Qays b. Thaʿlaba (Bakr). ʿAmr was born into a family of poets, probably around 480 C.E. (see G. E. von Grunebaum, Orientalia 8, 1939, 345); al-Muraqqish al-Akbar was his uncle, and al-Muraqqish al-Aṣghar and Ṭarafa were his cousins. Apart from these facts it is hard to discern whether the reports about some events in his life are true or fiction: for example,