Abu Dhu'aib

Khuwailid ibn Khalid, called Abu Dhu'aib, was the most famous poet of the tribe of Hudhail, whose territory lay in the Hijaz and Tihamah north of Fahm. Lyall calls Ode CXXVI the most celebrated and admired composition of the tribe's poets.

Hudhail had many poets at the end of the Ignorance and in the first age of Islam; Abu Dhu'aib's Diwan survives in good manuscripts.