'Alqama ibn 'Ubada, (Arabic: علقمة بن عبدة), generally known as 'Alqama al-Fahl (علقمة الفحل), was an Arabian poet of the tribe Tamim, who flourished in the second half of the 6th century.
What happened became so popular in the peninsula and people started to call him by that title.
His diwan consists of three qasidas (elegies) and eleven fragments.
[1] The poems were edited by Albert Socin with Latin translation as Die Gedichte des 'Alkama Alfahl (Leipzig, 1867), and are contained in Wilhelm Ahlwardt's The Diwans of the six ancient Arabic Poets (London, 1870); cf.
Ahlwardt's Bemerkungen über die Echtheit der alten arabischen Gedichte (Greifswald, 1872), pp.