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al-Akhzar ibn Lut al-Dili

الأخزر بن لعط الديلي

A poet of Banu al-Dil who boasted in verse of driving Banu Ka'b of Khuza'a away from al-Watir; Budayl ibn Umm Asram answered him in a poem Ibn Hisham records under a non-Ibn-Ishaq strand.

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At a glance

Roles
Tribal leader
Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Literature

Summary

A poet of Banu al-Dil who boasted in verse that they drove Banu Ka'b from al-Watir; Budayl ibn Umm Asram answered him with a poem Ibn Hisham cites from a source other than Ibn Ishaq 1.

For young visitors

A poet who sang of his people's victory over the water-well; a poet of the other side answered him with a poem saying the victory had not been theirs.

Connections

Member of
Banu al-Dil
Participated in
The Bakr–Khuza'a clash at al-Watir

People and things also explored

Banu Bakr ibn Abd ManatNawfal ibn Mu'awiya al-DiliThe Bakr–Khuza'a clash at al-WatirBanu al-DilKhuza'a's appeal to MedinaBudayl ibn Warqa' al-Khuza'iTamim ibn Asad al-Khuza'iAbu Sufyan's mission to Medina

Sources

  1. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/34
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People

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Related

Banu Bakr ibn Abd Manat

A tribe of Kinana that entered Quraysh's pact at Hudaybiyya; the night attack by its Banu al-Dil clan on Khuza'a at al-Watir — secretly armed by Quraysh — broke the truce and set off the conquest of Mecca.