Foundational Arabian generosity-figure (al-jud); the canonical embodiment of Arabian hospitality-ethics. Born in the late 6th c. CE in northern Arabia; member of the Banu Ṭay' tribe (Tayyi', a Qahtani-Yamani South Arabian tribe settled in the Najd and northern Arabian regions). His anecdotes are preserved across Arabic-Islamic adab (refined-letters) and akhbar (historical-anecdote) literature as the foundational case-studies of Arabian generosity-virtue. The most-canonical anecdote: when a Byzantine-Roman embassy visited his tent during a famine and he had nothing else to offer them, he slaughtered his only horse — his most-prized possession and his sole means of livelihood — to feed his guests. The slaughtered-horse anecdote is one of the most-widely-cited examples of Arabian-Islamic hospitality-ethics in the entire Arabic-literary tradition. Composed a substantial diwan preserved in medieval-Arabic compilation; though not included in the canonical Mu'allaqāt seven, Hatim is treated as a major Arabian poetic figure. Died c. 578 CE; buried in the Ṭay' tribal lands (modern northern Saudi Arabia near the Aja-Salma mountains). His son 'Adi ibn Hatim subsequently became a prominent companion of Muhammad after the Tayyi'-Islamic conversion in the early 7th c. CE — the Hatim-to-'Adi continuity preserves the generational transition from Arabian hospitality-ethic to Islamic-virtue framework.