383 – Ibn Sukkara, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Hāshimī*
The foremost poet of his day in Baghdad: Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Hāshimī, a descendant of the caliph al-Manṣūr.
A poet of far-reaching talent in every art of expression, yet a man given to ribald humor and frivolity; indeed, an age that produced both him and Ibn al-Ḥajjāj was most bountiful.
The pair are likened to Jarīr and al-Farazdaq.
Ibn Sukkara left a Dīwān in four volumes.
He also composed the two well-known verses:
“Winter has arrived, and for what it requires I possess ….” (1)
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 385 AH.

384 – Ibn Abī Ghālib, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Miṣrī**
The shaykh and ḥadith scholar Abū al-Qāsim ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn Sahl ibn Abī Ghālib al-Miṣrī, the cloth-merchant.
He heard (ḥadith) from: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Naffāḥ, Saʿīd ibn Hāshim al-Ṭabarānī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ʿAllān, Abū ʿUbayd ibn Ḥarbawayh, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Qazwīnī,