Harun ibn al-Munajjim

Abu 'Abdallah Harun b. 'Ali b. Yahya b. Abi Mansur al-Munajjim, the Baghdadi adib; a hafiz, reciter of poetry, agreeable company and delightful in converse. He composed the Kitab al-Bari' on the reports of the muwallad poets, gathering 161 of them — opening with Bashshar b. Burd and closing with Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Salih — choosing the best of each man's verse, and wrote in its preface that a man's selection is a piece of his knowledge. ¹