Hujr ibn al-Harith

Ḥujr ibn al-Ḥārith al-Kindī, of the royal house of Kinda, king (regent) over the Arab tribes of Asad and Ghaṭafān in the early 6th c. CE and father of the great Muʿallaqāt poet Imruʾ al-Qais. His killing by the rebellious Banū Asad sets in motion his son's lifelong vengeance-quest and exile. He is the paternal node of Imruʾ al-Qais, previously carried in the corpus only within the poet's prose and patronymic ('ibn Ḥujr').

Children

• Imru' al-Qais

Domains

• kingship of Kinda

Powers

• Ruled the tribes of Asad and Ghaṭafān as Kindite king

Relations

• father of: Imru' al-Qais

Sources

• al-Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-Rusul wa-al-Mulūk
• Ibn Qutayba, al-Shiʿr wa-al-Shuʿarāʾ (Book of Poetry and Poets, 9th c.)
• Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, Kitāb al-Aghānī (10th c.)