Amr ibn Salim al-Khuzaʿi

A man of Khuzāʿah who led the delegation of forty that rode to Medina after Banū Bakr, backed by Quraysh, massacred his tribe at the pond of al-Watīr. Before the Prophet ﷺ he recited a long, eloquent poem, preserved in Ibn Isḥāq and Ibn Hishām, that pressed three claims at once: the shared ancestor linking Khuzāʿah to the Prophet ﷺ through Quṣayy's Khuzāʿī wife, the ancient ḥilf (pact) ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib had sworn with Khuzāʿah, and their alliance with the Muslims under al-Ḥudaybiyyah, closing with how his people were cut down even as they bowed and prostrated (rukkaʿan wa-sujjadan). The Prophet ﷺ was moved and promised, satunṣar, "you shall be helped", setting the Conquest of Makkah in motion.