Dorayd bin Al Soma

Dorayd bin Al Summah (Arabic: دريد بن الصمة‎) was a pre-Islamic warrior, knight and poet of the Hawazin tribe. He was also the chief of the Banu Jusham, or the modern day Al-Qthami clan of the tribe of Otaibah. Historians have cited that he contributed to more than a hundred battles for his tribe. By the time of the rise of Islam, he was already an old man and remained a pagan.[1]

In his old age, he proposed marriage to the poetess Al-Khansa. According to the Kitab al-Aghani, she sent a slave woman to watch him urinate, saying "If his urine cuts into the ground, he has got something left in him; but if his urine trickles over the surface, there's no zip in him." The slave woman observed only a weak stream of urine, so Al-Khansa refused his offer of marriage.[2]

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References
  1. بن أيوب الحميري, عبد الملك بن هشام. "مقتل دريد بن الصمة".
  2. Jones, Alan (2011). Early Arabic Poetry: Select Poems. Ithaca Press. p. ix. ISBN 9780863723872.
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