Ḥumayd b. Thawr al-Hilālī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weipert, Reinhard
Leiden
Brill
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Ḥumayd b. Thawr al-Hilālī was an Arab poet of the first/seventh century. Information about his person is scarce and often contradictory. In his genealogy, for instance, his grandfather's name is ʿAbdallāh according to Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and Ibn ʿAsākir, but Ḥazn b. ʿAmr according to Ibn al-Kalbī. Al-Jumaḥī says that ʿAmr b. ʿAbd Manāf, not ʿĀmir b. Abī Rabīʿa b. Nahīk as Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and Ibn ʿAsākir stated, was his great-grandfather. His kunya (teknonym) is subject to similar confusion: