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Al-Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir ibn al-Mundhir ibn Amr al-Qais al-Lakhmi, nicknamed Abu Qabus (582-609 AD) was a Nestorian Christian who took over the reins of power after his father. He is one of the most famous kings of the Lakhmids before Islam. He was a shrewd and courageous man. He is praised. He is the builder of the city of al-Nu'maniyah on the right bank of the Tigris, and the master of the day of misery and bliss. He fought Ubayd ibn al-Abrash the poet, on the day of his misery; he fought Adi ibn Zayd and Ghazi Qirqisiya (between the Khabur and the Euphrates). In Sahih al-Jawhari: Abu Ubaydah said: “The Arabs used to call the kings of al-Hirah, meaning everyone who ruled it (al-Nu'man) because he was the last of them.” He was a short, red-haired man, and his mother was a Jewess from Khaybar. Shimon ibn Jabir supported him in the year