Abu Ya'fur ibn Alqama

Abu Ya'fur was of the Dhumayl, a noble family of Lakhmid – but non-dynastic – origin.

Very little is known about his life beyond the Nu'man appointed him as a military governor of al-Hira because he was occupied with the wars against the Byzantines, where he was killed near Circesium.

It is unclear whether Abu Ya'fur actually ruled the Lakhmids for a while instead of Nu'man's son, al-Mundhir III, or whether Mundhir assumed control of the tribe immediately upon his father's death.

He appears in a letter by Philoxenus of Mabbug in which Philoxenus tells Abu Yaf'ar of the "heresy" of Nestorius.

[1] Abu Yaf'ur resumed attacks on Byzantine-controlled land.