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At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Life in time
Summary
Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Salam b. Raghbana b. 'Abd al-Salam b. Habib, called Dik al-Jinn ('cock of the jinn'), the famous poet; a mawla of Tayyi', his people of Salamiyya, born at Homs — Tamim the first of his ancestors to become Muslim. 1
His poetry
Among the 'Abbasid state's poets he never left Syria nor journeyed to Iraq nor sought any patron; he inclined to a decent tashayyu' and has elegies on al-Husayn; he was rakish and dissolute yet his poetry is of utmost excellence, and he has tales among the slain of lovers. 1
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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islam.museum contributors. “Dik al-Jinn”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/dik-al-jinn/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.