Umayyah ibn Abī as-Ṣalt (Arabic: أمية بن أبي الصلت) was a pre-Islamic Arabian poet who advocated for monotheism instead of the worship of idols.
[1] His mother was a woman named Ruqayya, the great-granddaughter of the Arabian patriarch Qusayy ibn Kilab, thus maternally he has descent from the Quraysh.
[1][2][3] He is recorded to have visited Jews and Christians and becoming familiar with their scripture, learned that a prophet was coming to the Arabs.
[4][2] According to one source, the Kitāb al-Aghānī, Umayya himself claimed to be a prophet, although the reasons for accepting this account as authentic are thin.
[5] Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani says that Umayya converted to Islam late in life, around the time of his death in 626 CE.
[17] In 1934–1936, the Lebanese scholar Bashir Yamut collected several poems attributed to Umayya, compiling them in a book known as the Dīwān Umayyah ibn Abī al-Ṣalt.
[19] Both Umayya and the Quran treat similar prominent topics in the domains of creation, eschatology, and episodes of biblical prophetology.