al-Musayyab

Zuhair ibn 'Alas, called al-Musayyab, of the tribe of Dubai'ah ibn Rabi'ah, was the maternal uncle of the celebrated Maimun al-A'sha. Lyall judges that he flourished in the last half of the sixth century A.D. and was older than Tarafah.

He seems to have been a travelling composer of panegyrics who lived on the bounty of those he praised; Ode XI eulogizes al-Qa'qa' ibn Ma'bad ibn Zurarah, a chief of Tamim.