Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sabi'

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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim b. Hilal b. Ibrahim b. Zahrn b. Habun al-Harrani, the Sabian — author of the celebrated Epistles and of exquisite verse. ¹

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He was secretary of the insha' at Baghdad for the caliph and for 'Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar b. Mu'izz al-Dawla b. Buwayh al-Daylami, and took charge of the Diwan al-Rasa'il in 349. ¹

Abu al-Faraj al-Makhzumi al-Babbagha

Abd al-Wahid ibn Nasr ibn Ali, Abu al-Faraj al-Makhzumi, the poet called al-Babbagha; a cultivated man of letters, an elegant epistolary writer and a fine poet. Among his best-known verses is one addressed to Amid al-Juyush, appealing for help while he was imprisoned, when his house had been seized, his slaves had fled, his clothes were ruined and he had sold his furnishings. He had been nicknamed al-Babbagha long before, and in that verse he says that time has torn his garment, and that where his food was once fine rice he now makes do with plainer fare. Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sabi wrote to him from the prison, after visiting him in his confinement. He died in Sha'ban 398.

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Abu al-Faraj al-Makhzumi al-Babbagha