Abdullah ibn al-Zab'ari

The official poet of Quraysh, of Banū Sahm, and the great rival of Ḥassān ibn Thābit, he composed verse against Islam before and after Badr and Uḥud, trading poems with Ḥassān, whom the Prophet ﷺ had told to answer him with Jibrīl's support. At the Conquest he fled to Najrān, but Ḥassān's scathing poem shamed him and drew him to reflect on Islam. He returned and accepted it, the Prophet ﷺ saw "the light of faith" upon him as he approached, and spent the rest of his life composing poetry in praise of the Prophet ﷺ in expiation, once receiving the Prophet's ﷺ own cloak as a gift, an honour rarely given.