| Summary: | <p>Hammām ibn Ghālib, known as al-Farazdag, was born in Kāẓimah, a seaside village near Baṣrah about the year 20 A.H. (642 A.D.). He belonged to the Banū Mujāshi' section of the Tamīm tribe, and his family included a number of men who were famous in pre-Islamic life. The poet's father, Ghālib, was famous for his generosity; he was specially remembered for two feats of mass slaughter of camels. His grandfather, Ṣa'ṣa'ah, was known as 'life-giver to infanticides' for his work in ransoming many victims of this practice. Al-Farazdaq was proud of his ancestors of whose glories he frequently boasted; but neither their noble birth nor their deeds were sufficiently exalted to justify the poet's boastful challenge to Mu'āwiyah:</p>
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