Haritha ibn Badr al-Ghudani

Haritha ibn Badr al-Ghudani, a poet of Basra of the Umayyad period. Al-Baladhuri in "The Conquests of the Lands" gives verses describing the mosque of Ziyad and attributes them to him, then says that it is said that al-Ba'ith al-Mujashi' said them. The attribution of the verses is therefore a point of disagreement in the source. ¹

The verses describe the mosque as a building of stones not made of mud, and say that if people had not helped each other raise it, it would have been thought the work of devils. ¹