The uncle and nephew, called al-Muraqqish, were two poets of the Bakr bin Wa'il tribe and are perhaps the most ancient in the collection. The elder Muraqqish was the great-uncle of Tarafa of Bakr, the author of the "Mu'allaqat", and took part in the long warfare between the sister tribes of Bakr and Taghlib, called the "War of Basus", which began about the end of the 5th century CE. Al-Mufaḍḍal includes ten of his pieces (Nos. 45–54), interesting chiefly from an antiquarian point of view. No. 54 in particular appears very archaic and the compiler probably gathered all the available work of this ancient author, based on his antiquity. Of the younger Muraqqish, uncle of Tarafa, there are five pieces (Nos. 55–59). The only other authors of whom more than three poems are cited are Bishr ibn Abi Khazim of Asad (Nos. 96–99) and Rabi'a ibn Maqrum of Dabba (Nos. 38, 39, 43 and 113).