Qays ibn al-Mulawwah ibn Muzahim was a Bedouin poet. He fell in love with Layla Al-Aamiriya, from the same tribe. He soon began composing poems about his love for her, mentioning her name often. When he asked for her hand in marriage her father refused as, according to Arab traditions, this would have meant a scandal for Layla and her family. Soon after, Layla married another man. When Qays heard of her marriage he fled the tribe camp and began wandering in the surrounding desert. Layla moved to present-day Iraq with her husband where she became ill and eventually died. Qays was later found dead in the wilderness near an unknown woman’s grave in 688 A.D. On a rock near the grave he had carved three verses of poetry which are the last three verses attributed to him.