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').