Ibn Nabbata al-Fariqi · Islam Museum

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Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

Summary

Abu Yahya Ibn Nabbata, the khatib of khatibs 'Abd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Nabbata al-Fariqi al-Lakhmi — 'Asqalan-born, Egyptian by domicile; he held the khitaba of Aleppo for Sayf al-Dawla, his sermons showing his power of knowledge, breadth and ready talent, and all agree none ever made sermons like his; it was he whose sermons spurred Sayf al-Dawla to expand in jihad; he heard part of his diwan from al-Mutanabbi; born and died at Mayyafariqin. ¹

Sources

Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 83-84

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