Abū Duʾād al-Iyādī, Jāriya b. al-Ḥajjāj, an Arab poet of the pre-Islamic or jāhilī period. At present the information available about him consists of little more than a number of legends and a collection of poems which Blachère (2/295) regards as of doubtful authenticity. Furthermore, there is uncertainty over his name and that of his father also: Ibn al-Sikkīt gives Abū Duʾād's father's laqab (honorific title) as ‘Ḥumrān’ (Abū al-Faraj, Dār al-K…