Zuhair ibn Abi Sulma was born in Muzaina, near Madina and lived in Najd . 
Some of his relatives including his father, uncle, sister, two sons, and grandson were all poets . 
His poems were called hawliyyat because it took him one to four months to compose a poem and a full year to improve it . 
His most famous poem was one of the muallaqat . 
It contains widely popular lines that were considered great human maxims . 
He was a sincere man of high moral character and did not praise anyone except truthfully . 
The most famous person he praised was Harim ibn Sinan, who paid the blood money to stop the Dahis and Al-Ghabra War . 
So, Zuhair composed several poems celebrating his deeds and extolling his rank . 
Harim, in return, vowed to reward Zuhair every time he met him . 
Ashamed of the bountiful gifts given by Harim, Zuhair ultimately had to avoid meeting him . 
Shortly before his death, he had a dream which he interpreted as the close advent of the prophet of the last prophet . 
His sons were poets, the most famous of them was Kaab ibn Zuhair, who came to the Prophet, embraced Islam and praised the Prophet () with his famous poem . 
Zuhair died in c . 
13 BH/609 AD .