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Ibn Sana' al-Mulk, Qadi Abu'l-Qasim Hibat Allah ibn al-Qadi al-Rashid Ja'far, the Egyptian man of letters and author of the famous diwan; he studied under al-Sharif al-Khatib and grammar under Ibn Birni, heard al-Silafi, and wrote in the Diwan al-Insha'; brilliant in prose and verse, much given to refinement and luxury, fortunate in worldly things; he abridged al-Jahiz's Kitab al-Hayawan calling it Ruh al-hayawan, compiled the diwan of muwashshahat called Durr al-tiraz, and gathered the correspondence between himself and al-Qadi al-Fadil. ²

Sharaf al-Din Ibn 'Unayn entered Egypt in his time and they held feasts saying "here is the poet of Syria"; al-'Imad the katib said: "I was with al-Qadi al-Fadil in his tent when he fed me a hunting-poem Ibn Sana' al-Mulk had written him — he was not yet twenty — and I marvelled at it"; he died in the first ten days of Ramadan. ²