Ḥāritha b. Badr al-Ghudānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Hussein, Ali Ahmad
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Abū l-ʿAnbas Ḥāritha b. Badr b. Ḥuṣayn b. Qaṭan al-Ghudānī (d. between 64/684 and 66/686) was an Arabic poet of the early Islamic period, from the Ghudāna tribe, a subtribe of the Tamīm of Basra. He was one of the leaders of his tribe, a horseman, an eloquent speaker, and an expert on the genealogy and history of the Arabs. He drank wine and was severely criticised for it. His youth coincided with the time of the prophet Muḥammad; later he participated in the Battle of