A member of the Banū Thaqīf tribe, Abū Miḥjan was a mukhaḍram (non-Muslim) who took part in the defence of al-Ṭāʾif against Muḥammad in year 8 AH (630 AD).
In year 9 AH (631/2 AD), however, he converted to Islam and afterwards joined the Muslim conquest of Persia.
He may have fought at the Battle of Vologesias in 633, but Muḥammad's second successor, Caliph ʿUmar, ordered him into exile to a place called Ḥaḍawḍa.
[1] The poetry of Abū Miḥjan is unoriginal and chiefly of interest for its author's evident oenophilia.
The line "When I die, bury me at the foot of a vine" is attributed to him, as are several poems challenging the Qurʾānic prohibition on alcohol.