Abu Dhu'ayb al-Hudhali

Abu Dhu'ayb Khuwaylid ibn Khalid al-Hudhali, a poet. He went out in the army of Abd Allah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh to Ifriqiya in the raid of Uthman, and died there. ¹

Al-Baladhuri says that Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr took charge of his affair until he buried him in his grave. He is among the participants in the first raid on Ifriqiya, and his death is mentioned there. ¹

• The source of this page is a single one, "Futuh al-Buldan"; a second source is needed. The year of death is not known from the present data.

The unsigned Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.) entry names him Khuwaylid b. Khalid, a younger contemporary of the Prophet ﷺ and the foremost poet of the Hudhayl. The legend that he reached Medina the morning after the Prophet's death is treated as unreliable. The article thinks he went to Egypt under 'Umar and joined Ibn Abi Sarh's campaign into Ifriqiya in 26/647, and that he died on the road to Medina, where he was with 'Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr. It reports that he lost five sons to the plague in Egypt in one year. His odes were praised for their structure, and the article links his descriptions of wild honey and bees to his teacher Sa'ida b. Judayy. ²