ʿUmar Ibn Lajaʾ b. Ḥudayr b. Maṣād al-Taymī was a poet of satire (hijāʾ) in the Umayyad era. His tribe was the Banū Aysar, a branch of the famous Taym al-Ribāb. A Bedouin, Ibn Lajaʾ lived in al-Yamāma, the region that includes present-day Riyadh, and then removed to al-Ahwāz, where he died in about 105/724 or later. It is not known whether Lajaʾ is the name of his father or of his grandfather (his father's cognomen was al-Ashʿath). He is known for