Arabic & Persian

Murrah ibn Hammam

6th century


Murrah ibn Hammam was of Dhuhl ibn Shaiban, a branch of Bakr ibn Wa'il long settled in al-'Iraq, near the royal house of al-Hirah. Lyall has no information to fix the date of his short poem.

It concerns a raid on his herd of camels by a man named 'Auf.

  1. Ode LXXXII: O my two comrades, saddle the

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