Ḥārith al-Hamdānī, Abū Zuhayr Ḥārith b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Kūfī (d. 65/685) was a follower (tābiʿī) and a companion of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (q.v.). He was also identified by the epithet ‘al-Aʿwar’, meaning he was blind in one eye (Ibn Qutayba, 586–587; Ibn Rusta, 224), a title by which he became known (al-Samʿānī, 1/192). Some sources record his father’s name as ʿUbayd Allāh instead of ʿAbd Allāh (Ibn Abī Ḥātim, 3/78). He belonged to the Banī Ḥawth (or Ḥūth) clan of the Hamdān tribe (Ibn al-Kalbī, 2/251; Ibn Saʿd, 6/…