(*) Principal biographical sources: – Thaʿalibi, Yatimat al-Dahr, 1/356-384; – al-Kuna wa-l-Alqab, 1/437; – Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 2/104-107; – al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4/92/1; – al-Safadi, al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 12/114-119; – Ibn al-Imad, Mirʾat al-Jinan, 2/445-446; – Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3/141 (he calls him “Wakiaʿ” and drops the word “ibn,” which is incorrect); – Rawdat al-Jannat, 216; – Hadiyyat al-ʿArifin, 1/273; – Ismaʿil Pasha, Idah al-Maknun, 2/264; – Aʿyan al-Shiʿa, 22/207-225. Ibn Khallikan notes: “Wakiʿ is the laqab of his grandfather, the qadi Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Khalaf.” Hence the subject of this entry became known as “Ibn Wakiʿ” in reference to that grandfather, who is the author of Akhbar al-Qudat and other works. The compiler of Hadiyyat al-ʿArifin mistakenly ascribed those juridical works of Wakiʿ the grandfather to the present poet-grandson. (1) He also wrote al-Munsif, in which he exposes Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi’s borrowings and elucidates the problematic passages in his poetry. The book was edited by Dr. Muhammad Ridwan al-Dayya and published by Dar Qutaiba, Damascus, 1982. A manuscript of one of his poems is preserved in Berlin (Ms. 7589). Al-Nuwayri, Nihayat al-Arab, 1/179-183, cites several of his rajaz poems on the four seasons. (2) Wafayat al-Aʿyan omits the word “Faraj.” (3) The two verses are quoted in Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 2/105. In Yatimat al-Dahr Thaʿalibi reproduces his muzdawaja al-murabbaʿa, a poem in which each set of four hemistichs ends with the same rhyme; it opens with: “Risala min kalifin ʿamid / hayatuhu fi qabdat al-sudud / balaghahu al-shawq mada al-majhud / ma fawqa ma yalqahu min mazid.” For the range of his poetry, see Yatimat al-Dahr.