أبو حنش اللائي

أبو حنش اللائي

Abu Hansh al-La'i, also said to be al-Numayri, whose name was Hudayr ibn Qays al-Basri; he lived a hundred years. When the vizier Yaqub ibn Dawud died he composed elegiac verses, which Abu Tammam included in his 'al-Hamasa'; the first of them opens with Yaqub's name ¹.