It's hard to be sure what the earliest recorded Arabic poetry is, but a good candidate is North Arabian inscription KRS 2453:
"It is Lord Mot's feast: the brute eats yet.
The exchange of nights and days is set.
Behold Baal sleeps. Asleep, he is not dead."
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