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{{Short description|Arabian poet (died c.660)}}
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{{Infobox poet
| name          = Labid
| image         = 
| caption       = 
| birth_name    = Abū Aqīl Labīd ibn Rabīʿa ibn Mālik al-ʿĀmirī
| birth_date    = c. 505
| birth_place   = Higher [[Nejd]], [[Arabia]]
| death_date    = c. 661
| death_place   = 
| occupation    = Poet, Warrior
| language      = Arabic
| nationality   = Arab
| period        = Pre-Islamic and Islamic eras
| genre         = Poetry
| notableworks  = ''[[Mu'allaqat]]''}}

'''Abū Aqīl Labīd ibn Rabīʿa ibn Mālik al-ʿĀmirī''' ({{Langx|ar|أبو عقيل لَبيد بن ربيعة بن مالك العامِري}}; c. 505<ref>{{Cite book |last=الغلاييني |first=مصطفى |title=كتاب رجال المعلقات العشر |pages=34–35 |language=ar}}</ref> – c. 661) was an [[Arab]] poet from higher [[Nejd]] and a [[sahaba|companion]] of the Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]].

He 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 Muhammad at [[Medina]] and on this occasion was much influenced by a part of the [[Quran]]'s , shortest Surah, '[[Al-Kawthar]]'. He accepted [[Islam]] soon after. One of his poems is contained in the [[Mu'allaqat]].{{sfn|Thatcher|1911|p=5}}

His ''muruwwa'' (virtue) is highlighted in the story that he vowed to feed people whenever the east wind began to blow, and to continue so doing until it stopped. Al-Walid 'Uqba, leader of the Kuffa, sent him one hundred camels to enable him to keep his vow.

In an elegy composed for Nu'mh Mundhii, Labid wrote:
:''Every thing, but Allah, is vain''
:''And all happiness, unconditionally, will vanish''
:''When a man is on a night journey, he thinks that he has accomplished some deed''
:''But man spends his life in hopes''
:'''...'''
:''If you do not trust your self, approve it''
:''Perhaps the past would unclose it to you''
:''When you do not find a father other than 'Adnan and Ma'ad,''
:''The judge (God) will punish you''
:''On the day when every body will be informed of his deeds''
:''When the record of his life is opened before Allah''

Muhammad said of the first verse of the above eulogy: "The most true words said by a poet was the words of Labid" and "Verily, Everything except Allah is perishable and Umaiya bin As-Salt was about to be a Muslim (but he did not embrace Islam)."

[Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhāri, The Book of Manners, Ḥadīth No. 3841]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sahih al-Bukhari 3841 - Merits of the Helpers in Madinah (Ansaar) - كتاب مناقب الأنصار - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم) |url=https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3841 |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=sunnah.com}}</ref>

==References==
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*{{EB1911|wstitle=Labīd|volume=16|pages=5–6|first=Griffithes Wheeler|last=Thatcher}}

==External links==
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*[http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ64191.pdf The concept of Allah as the highest god in pre-Islamic Arabia]

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[[Category:560 births]]
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[[Category:6th-century Arabic-language poets]]
[[Category:7th-century Arabic-language poets]]
[[Category:Banu Kilab]]
[[Category:Companions of the Prophet]]

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