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Abu Hansh al-La'i

أبو حنش اللائي

Abu Hansh al-La'i, also said to be al-Numayri, whose name was Hudayr ibn Qays al-Basri; he lived a hundred years. When the vizier Yaqub ibn Dawud died he composed elegiac verses, which Abu Tammam included in his 'al-Hamasa'; the first of them opens with Yaqub's name 1.

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The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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