Ghalib ibn Sa'sa'a

Ghalib b. Sa'sa'a b. Najiya al-Tamimi, father of al-Farazdaq; among the great men and nobles of his people — his mother Layla bt. Habis was al-Aqra' b. Habis's sister. His father has famous virtues and recorded merits: when famine struck the people of Kufa he was their chief, and slaughtered for his people in the famous munafara contest with Suhaym b. Wathil al-Riyahi until it reached a hundred camels in a single day. ¹