الراعي النميري

Ubayd ibn Husayn al-Numayri, whose kunya was Abu Jundal, and who was known as al-Ra'i for his frequent description of camels in his poetry. He was one of the senior poets of his age ¹.

He praised Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, and joined al-Farazdaq in satirising Jarir ¹.

The author holds that he was an Umayyad for the sake of his people, and that he wished Abd al-Malik to lift from them the injustice of the tax-collectors ².