ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī, son of the proverbially generous pre-Islamic chief Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī and himself a leader of the tribe of Ṭayyiʾ who, on the rise of Islam, became a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. As a hinge between the Jāhilī virtue-world of his father and the Islamic order, he is placed in the latest pre-/early-Islamic ('muʿallaqāt-poetic') stratum the Arabian era-vocabulary affords.