Abū Aqīl Labīd ibn Rabīʿa ibn Mālik al-ʿĀmirī (Arabic: أبو عقيل لَبيد بن ربيعة بن مالك العامِري; c. 505[1] – c. 661) was an Arab poet from higher Nejd and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
In his younger years he was an active warrior, and his verse is largely concerned with inter-tribal disputes.
Later, he was sent by a sick uncle to get a remedy from Muhammad at Medina and on this occasion was much influenced by a part of the Quran's , shortest Surah, 'Al-Kawthar'.
His muruwwa (virtue) is highlighted in the story that he vowed to feed people whenever the east wind began to blow, and to continue so doing until it stopped.
In an elegy composed for Nu'mh Mundhii, Labid wrote: Muhammad said of the first verse of the above eulogy: "The most true words said by a poet was the words of Labid" and "Verily, Everything except Allah is perishable and Umaiya bin As-Salt was about to be a Muslim (but he did not embrace Islam)."