Ibn al-Mustawfi al-Irbili

Abu'l-Barakat al-Mubarak ibn Abi'l-Fath Ahmad ibn al-Mubarak ibn Muwhib al-Lakhmi, Sharaf al-Din, known as Ibn al-Mustawfi al-Irbili; born in 564, a dignified, humble, generous chief whom no notable reaching Irbil failed to visit first. A hadith scholar and imam in its sciences and narrators' names, master of grammar, language, prosody, rhyme, rhetoric, Arab poetry, battle-days and proverbs, and expert in the chancery and its accounts. ^{1 2}

He compiled a four-volume history of Irbil; his works include al-Nazm, a sharh of al-Mutanabbi's and Abu Tammam's poetry in ten volumes, Ithbat al-mufassal in two, Sirr al-sin'a, the book Aba Qahash and a diwan; Ibn Khallikan heard much from him and noted he read to visiting shaykhs himself. He surrendered Irbil's citadel to the Tatars in 634, moved to Mosul and died there in Ramadan 638, buried in the Bab al-Jassasiyya cemetery. ^{1 2}