Abd Dakhim ibn Iram

Abd Dakhim ibn Iram ibn Nuh, of whom al-Mas'udi says that he went with his son and those who followed him and settled at al-Ta'if, then perished in some of the calamities of time, and were obliterated, and the poets mentioned them. ¹

It is said that they were the first to write in Arabic and to set out the twenty-nine letters of the alphabet, "and it is said otherwise". The report is disputed. ¹