مقتل حجر أبي امرئ القيس

Hujr ibn al-Harith al-Kindi, father of the poet Imru' al-Qays, was killed by the Banu Asad, in an account Ibn al-Athir relates. ¹

His father had made him king over the Banu Asad, Ghatafan and Kinana, and they owed him a reward and a tribute. When the Banu Asad drove out his tax-collectors and beat them, he marched against them with troops from Rabi'a, Qays and Kinana. He took their chiefs and began killing them with a staff, and imprisoned their nobles, among them Ubayd ibn al-Abras. ¹

Ibn al-Athir says that their soothsayer, Awf ibn Rabi'a, foretold the king's death, so they attacked him in his tent. Ilba ibn al-Harith al-Kahili stabbed him, for Hujr had killed his father. Then they plundered his camels, women and possessions. ¹

His death kindled a war of vengeance by Imru' al-Qays against the Banu Asad. ¹

The date is approximate in the data (around the sixth century CE) and needs an additional source. The figure Hujr ibn al-Harith al-Kindi has his own page.