Abū Miḥjan, a mukhaḍram poet (one who lived part of his life in the pre-Islamic era and the rest after the advent of Islam). What appears about him in the sources is closer to legend than fact. There is disagreement about his name: some state that it was Mālik or ʿAbd Allāh (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, 4/1746), while others say Abū Miḥjan was his proper name (ism), and Abū ʿUbayd his kunya (Ibn Ḥajar, 4/170). He is also said to have been called Ḥabīb (al-Āmidī, 133).

He came from the Banū Thaqīf (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, 4/1746), and was one of the enemy archers ranged against the Muslims at the…