Pre-Islamic
- Laqīṭ ibn Yaʿmur al-Iyādī (d. c. 380 CE)
- Kulayb ibn Rabīʿa (d. c. 494 CE)
- Uḥayḥa ibn al-Julāḥ (d. c. 497 CE)
- al-Shanfarā (d. c. 525 CE)
- al-Muhalhil ibn Rabīʿa (d. c. 531 CE)
- ʿAmr ibn Qamīʾa (d. c. 540 CE)
- Imruʾ al-Qays (d. c. 540 CE)
- al-Samawʾal (d. c. 560 CE)
- Zuhayr ibn Janāb al-Kalbī (d. c. 564 CE)
- al-Mutalammis al-Ḍubaʿī (d. c. 569 CE)
- Ṭarafa ibn al-ʿAbd (d. c. 569 CE)
- al-Khirniq bint Badr (d. c. 570 CE)
- al-Musayyab ibn ʿAlas (d. c. 575 CE)
- al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥilliza (d. c. 580 CE)
- ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm (d. c. 584 CE)
- ʿAdī ibn Zayd (d. c. 587 CE)
- al-Muthaqqib al-ʿAbdī (d. c. 587 CE)
- ʿUrwa ibn al-Ward (d. c. 594 CE)
- Bishr ibn Abī Khāzim (d. c. 598 CE)
- al-Aswad ibn Yaʿfur (d. c. 600 CE)
- al-Ḥādira (d. c. 600 CE)
- Salāma ibn Jandal (d. c. 600 CE)
- ʿAlqama al-Faḥl (d. c. 603 CE)
- al-Nābigha al-Dhubyānī (d. c. 604 CE)
- Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī (d. c. 605 CE)
- al-Sulayk ibn al-Sulaka (d. c. 605 CE)
- Taʾabbaṭa Sharran (d. c. 607 CE)
- ʿAntara ibn Shaddād (d. c. 608 CE)
- Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā (d. c. 609 CE)
- Ṭufayl al-Ghanawī (d. c. 610 CE)
- Aws ibn Ḥajar (d. c. 620 CE)
- Qays ibn al-Khaṭīm (d. c. 620 CE)
- al-Aʿshā (d. c. 7 AH / 629 CE)
- ʿĀmir ibn al-Ṭufayl (d. c. 11 AH / 632 CE)