al-Bahrani

Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad b. Yusuf b. Muhammad b. Qa'id, surnamed Muwaffaq al-Din — of Irbil by origin and upbringing, Bahraini by birth — the famous poet; a leading imam in the science of Arabic, versatile in verse's genres, among the best-versed in prosody and rhyme, most skilful in criticism, best able to tell good verse from bad and finest-eyed in choosing it; he worked at some of the ancients' sciences and solved Euclid's book; he began versifying as a small boy at Bahrain; his shaykh was Abu'l-Haram Makki al-Masarjisi the grammarian; he has a history recording his virtues. ¹