Abu Layla al-Muhalhel

{{Short description|Poet and warrior in pre-Islamic Arabia}}

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| name = Abu Layla al-Muhalhel

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| birth_date = {{circa}} 443 CE

| birth_place = Najd

| death_date = {{circa}} 531 CE

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| occupation = Poet, Warrior

| language = Arabic

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| relatives = Imru' al-Qais (nephew), Amr ibn Kulthum (grandson)

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Abu Layla ʿUday ibn Rabīʿa ibn al-Ḥāriṯ at-Taḡlibiyy ({{langx|ar|أَبُو لَيْلَى عُدَيّ بْن رَبِيعَة بْن الْحَارِث التَّغْلِبِيّ}}; {{circa}} 443 – 531 CE), also known by the nicknames al-Muhalhil ("he who finely weaves poems") and az-Zīr ("the philander"), was a pre-Islamic poet and warrior born in Najd. He led the Banu Taghlib tribe in the forty-year long War of Basus.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hdKYyGfHHxcC&pg=PT215|title=الأعلام – الجزء 4|trans-title=Al-Aʿlām — Part 4|page=220|last=الزركلي|first=خير الدين|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806084954/https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hdKYyGfHHxcC&pg=PT215&lpg=PT215&dq|archive-date=6 August 2018|year=1926|access-date=19 August 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://ar.lib.eshia.ir/40449/1/847|title=المهلهل بن ربيعة|trans-title=Al-Muhalhil ibn Rabīʿa|language=ar|access-date=14 January 2019|website=Ma'ajm al-Shu'ara al-Arab}}{{Cite journal|last=Weipert|first=Reinhard|date=1 January 2021|access-date=19 August 2022|title=al-Muhalhil|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/al-muhalhil-COM_36596|journal=Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE|language=en}}

He was the maternal uncle of fellow poet Imru' al-Qais, and also the grandfather of Amr ibn Kulthum through his second daughter Layla.