Muḥaṣar. When her family moved from the Ḥijāz to Syria, ʿUrwah followed them. His uncle refused to marry him to her because of his poverty and instead gave her to another cousin who was wealthy. ʿUrwah wasted away and died from his love for her.
Among the verses he composed for her are:
It is only that I glimpse her all at once—
I am struck dumb, scarcely able to reply;
My mind turns from the resolve I once upheld,
And I forget what I had prepared while she was away.
ʿUyayna ibn Ḥiṣn ibn Ḥudhayfa ibn Badr ibn ʿAmr ibn Juwayya ibn Lawdhān ibn Thaʿlaba ibn ʿAdī ibn Fazārah al-Fazārī, of Qays Ghailān—his given name was Ḥudhayfa. A bout of ophthalmia caused his eyes to protrude, and so he was nicknamed ʿUyayna (“Little Eye”). He bore the kunya Abū Mālik and was the chief and leading horseman of Banū Fazārah.
Al-Wāqidī said: Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʿfar related to me from his father: “The lands of the clan of Badr were stricken by drought, so ʿUyayna set out with about one hundred households of his people until he reached the valley of Nakhl. Fearing the Prophet ﷺ, he entered Medina. He neither embraced Islam nor stayed far away, but said, ‘I wish to draw near to your protection; make a truce with me.’ The Prophet ﷺ granted him a truce for three months. When the term expired, ʿUyayna returned home and raided the Prophet’s milch camels at al-Ghabah. Al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAwf said to him, ‘Is this how you repay Muḥammad—fattening yourself in his land and then attacking him?’”
Al-Wāqidī also said: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUqbah ibn Salamah related to me from his uncle Iyās ibn Salamah, from his father, who said: “ʿUyayna, with forty men, raided the Messenger of Allah’s ﷺ twenty milch camels, drove them off, and killed one of Abū Dharr’s sons who was tending them. The Prophet ﷺ pursued them to Dhū Qarad and recovered ten camels, while the raiders escaped with the rest. Ḥabīb ibn ʿUyayna, his cousin Masʿadah, and several others were slain.”