Abu Nakhayla

أبو نخيلة الشاعر

The panegyrist who repudiated before al-Saffah every earlier praise-poem — 'all I said of others was false' — and was rewarded 1.

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Abu Nakhayla, a poet whose verses praising Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik al-Mas'udi reports. 1

When he entered upon Abu al-Abbas, he recited verses in which he said that everything he had said about anyone else was falsehood. The caliph was pleased with him, gave him a gift and rewarded him. 1

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  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 250-251
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