Abu Layla ʿUday ibn Rabīʿa ibn al-Ḥāriṯ at-Taḡlibiyy (Arabic: أَبُو لَيْلَى عُدَيّ بْن رَبِيعَة بْن الْحَارِث التَّغْلِبِيّ; c. 443 – 531 CE), also known by the nicknames al-Muhalhil ("he who finely weaves poems") and az-Zīr ("the philander"), was a pre-Islamic poet and warrior born in Najd.
He led the Banu Taghlib tribe in the forty-year long War of Basus.
[1][2][3] He was the maternal uncle of fellow poet Imru' al-Qais,[1] and also the grandfather of Amr ibn Kulthum through his second daughter Layla.
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