LABID (

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• ABU

Abu 'Agil Labicl

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• IBN

ibn Rabi'a) (c. 56o-c. 661)  , Arabian poet, belonged to the Bani 'Amir, a division of the tribe of the Hawazin . In his younger years he was an active warrior and his verse is largely concerned with inter-tribal disputes . Later, he was sent by a sick uncle to get a remedy from Mahomet at Medina and on this occasion was much influenced by a part of the Koran . He accepted Islam soon after, but seems then to have ceased writing . In Omar's caliphate he is said to have settled in Kufa . Tradition ascribes to him a long life, but dates given are uncertain and contradictory . One of his poems is contained in the Mo'allakat (q.v.) . Twenty of his poems were edited by Chalidi (Vienna, 1880); another thirty-five, with fragments and a German translation of the whole, were edited (partly from the remains of A . Huber) by C . Brockelmann (Leiden, 1892) ; cf . A. von Kremer, fiber die Gedichte des Lebyd (Vienna, 1881) . Stories of Labid are contained in the Kitabul-Aghani, xiv .

93 if. and xv . 137 if . (G . W .