Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah

ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah al-Makhzūmī was an Arab poet. He was born into a wealthy family of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca, his father being ʿAbd Allāh and his mother Asmā bint Mukharriba. He was characterised by the biographer Ibn Khallikan as 'the best poet ever produced by the tribe of Quraysh'.