Al-Rabi ibn Abu al-Huqayq

Al-Rabi ibn Abu al-Huqayq (Arabic: ٱلرَّبِيع ٱبْن أَبِي ٱلْحُقَيْق, ar-Rabīʿ ibn ʾAbī al-Ḥuqayq) was a composer of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry of the Jewish tribe of Banu al-Nadir in Medina, flourishing shortly before the Hijra (622 CE).

Like most of the Medina Jews, he took part in the quarrels between the two Arab tribes of that town, and was present at the Battle of Bu'ath, 617, which took place in the territory of the Banu Qurayza.

He had a contest at capping verses with the famous Arabic poet, al-Nabighah, the latter reciting one hemistich, while Al-Rabi had to supply the next, keeping to the same meter and finding a rhyme.

From its contents, however (it criticizes the folly of his own people), it seems more likely to have been written by one of Abun's sons, who bore the same name as Al-Rabi.

He is cited among the Arabic Jewish poets by Moses ibn Ezra in his Kitab al-Muhadharah (Rev.