'Imran ibn Hittan al-Raqqashi

Imran ibn Hittan al-Raqqashi, a Kharijite poet. Al-Mas'udi mentions him in an account of the blow that struck Ali at the hand of Ibn Muljam. ¹

He praised Ibn Muljam's blow in a verse whose sense is that it was the blow of a pious man who intended nothing but reaching God's good pleasure. The judge Abu al-Tayyib Tahir ibn Abdallah al-Shafi'i answered him with a verse whose sense is that it was the blow of a wretch who meant to destroy the pillars of Islam. ¹

Al-Mas'udi counts these two verses among the best known things said about that event. ¹

His life dates are not recorded in the data. They need an additional source.