al-Husain ibn al-Humam

Al-Husain ibn al-Humam al-Murri was a celebrated chief of the house of Sahm, of the tribe of Murrah, a sub-tribe of Dhubyan within the large Ghatafan group of north-central Arabia. In the introduction to his edition of the Mufaddaliyat, Charles Lyall describes him as living in the last age of the Ignorance; Abu 'Ubaidah is cited as saying he lived into Islam, a claim Lyall finds doubtful.

He was known by the title Mani' ad-dhaim, 'the Defender against wrong'. Two of his poems survive in the Mufaddaliyat, both relating to the War of the Huraqah, in which he defended a protected Quda'ite tribe against kinsmen of his own people. They are given here in Lyall's English prose translation of 1918.