al-Aswad ibn Ya'fur

Al-Aswad ibn Ya'fur lived his whole life in the Ignorance, as a contemporary and boon-companion of an-Nu'man Abu Qabus, the last Lakhmite king of al-Hirah. He suffered from weak sight and in old age became quite blind.

Lyall believes that all of his verse that survives is in the Mufaddaliyat and the Aghani.