(1) One of his letters reads: “Water, when it remains too long, reveals its foulness; when its surface is still, its stench is stirred. Likewise the guest: his visit becomes disagreeable if his stay is prolonged, and his presence grows burdensome once its proper limit is passed.” Samples of his prose are found in Yatimat al-Dahr 4/259-292 and Muʿjam al-Udabaʾ 2/167 ff. His collected Letters, together with a biography extracted from Yatimat al-Dahr, were printed at the Jawāʾib Press in Istanbul, 1298 AH; reprinted in Beirut, 1890 CE; reissued in Egypt, 1315 AH, with his Maqamat annotated by Sayyid Mahmud al-Rafiʿi in the margin; and published again, with commentaries by Shaykh Ibrahim al-Ahdab under the title Kashf al-Maʿani wa-l-Bayan min Rasail Badiʿ al-Zaman (Jesuit Press, Beirut, 1890 CE). Another impression appeared in Egypt, 1304 AH, on the margin of Ibn Hujjah al-Hamawi’s Khizanat al-Adab. (2) His Diwan was printed at Matbaʿat al-Mawsuʿat in 1903. A selection of his verse is reproduced in Yatimat al-Dahr 4/292-301. (3) Yatimat al-Dahr, Wafayat, and al-Wafi read yasudd ("he turns away") instead of yasil ("he reaches"). (4) The cited verses occur in Tarikh al-Islam 4/106/1; the first two are also in Yatimat al-Dahr 4/293, Wafayat al-Aʿyan 1/128, and al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 6/358. Al-Thaʿalibi states that they belong to a poem addressed to the amir Abu Ali, beginning: “Alayya an la urih al-isa wa-l-qataba / wa-albis al-bayda wa-al-zulma wa-al-laylaba.” (5) I.e. he died of a sudden stroke. (*) Yatimat al-Dahr 3/122-123; Tabaqat al-ʿAbbadi, p. 110; Tarikh Baghdad 10/139.