Zuhayr ibn Jadhīma ibn Rawāḥa al-ʿAbsī (Arabic: زهير بن جذيمة) was the chieftain of the Banu Abs who ultimately became the leader of the Ghatafan and Hawazin tribal confederations in pre-Islamic Arabia in the mid-6th century.
Zuhayr was the son of Jadhima ibn Rawaha of the Banu Abs, a subtribe of the larger Arab tribe of Ghatafan.
[2] The Banu Abs were based in the Qassim region of Najd in central Arabia.
[1] Under Zuhayr's leadership in circa 550, the Ghatafan became a powerful force in Arabia.
[1] A fourth-generation, direct descendant of Zuhayr, Wallada bint al-Abbas al-Absiyya, married the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705) and gave birth to the later Umayyad caliphs al-Walid I (r. 705–715) and Sulayman (r.