al-Mukhabbal

Abu Yazid ar-Rabi' ibn Malik, called al-Mukhabbal, was of the Sa'd ibn Zaid-Manat branch of Tamim, whose lands lay at the head of the Persian Gulf. Lyall records that he lived to a ripe old age and became a Muslim after a long life in the Ignorance, as one of the mukhadrims.

On conversion he settled at al-Basrah, founded about A.D. 637-38. The lady celebrated in his ode, ar-Rabab, was of the same family.