ʿUmayr ibn Qays—one of the Banū Firas ibn Ghanm ibn Mālik ibn Kinānah—was better known by the sobriquet Jadhl al-Taʿān.
[from the Wāfir metre]
Maʿadd well knows that my people—
the noblest of mankind—possess true nobility; (1)
Which tribe has escaped us with an unavenged blood-debt,
or whom have we not forced to bite the bridle?
Are we not the ones who postpone, for Maʿadd,
the months of open warfare, declaring them sacrosanct?
The upshot (2) is that he gathered the Quraysh from their scattered places throughout the Arabian Peninsula and, with the help of the Arab clans that obeyed him, waged war against Khuzāʿah, driving them from the Sacred House (3) and handing it over to Quṣayy. A fierce battle followed (4) with much bloodshed. The parties then agreed to arbitration and submitted the case to Yaʿmar ibn ʿAwf ibn Kaʿb ibn ʿĀmir ibn Layth ibn Bakr ibn ʿAbd Manāh ibn Kinānah. Yaʿmar ruled that Quṣayy had the stronger claim to the House, that every drop of Khuzāʿah or Banū Bakr blood shed by Quṣayy was annulled and crushed (5) beneath his feet, whereas any blood shed by Khuzāʿah and Banū Bakr of Quraysh, Kinānah, and the Banū (6) Quḍāʿah had to be compensated with the full payment of blood-money; and that Quṣayy should be left in sole control of Mecca and the Kaʿbah. From that day Yaʿmar was called al-Shaddākh, “the Crusher.” (7)
Ibn Isḥāq says: Quṣayy thus assumed custody of the House and authority over Mecca. He gathered his kinsmen from their former dwellings and settled them in Mecca, ruled over his tribe and the people of Mecca, and they invested him with kingship. Nevertheless, he confirmed the Arabs in the practices they were following, for he regarded them as religion that ought not be altered. He therefore left the family of Ṣafwān, ʿAdwān, the time-postponers (al-Nasāʾah), and Murrah ibn ʿAwf as they were, until Islam came and Allah abolished all of that.
He further said: Quṣayy was the first of the descendants of Kaʿb to obtain a rulership to which his people submitted. The custodianship of the House, the watering of the pilgrims, the feeding of the needy, the Nadwah council, and the banner (8) were all entrusted to him, so he secured every distinction in Mecca. He then divided the city into allotments among his clan, settling each branch of Quraysh in its quarter of Mecca. (9)