(1) Yatimat al-dahr, vol. 1, pp. 236-270; Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 11, p. 11; Al-Ansab, vol. 2, p. 70; Al-Muntazam, vol. 7, p. 241; Al-Lubab, vol. 1, p. 117; Al-Kamil fi al-tarikh, vol. 9, p. 209; Wafayat al-aʿyan, vol. 3, pp. 199-202; Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 4, pp. 107/2, 108/1; Al-ʿIbar, vol. 3, pp. 68-69; Al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, vol. 11, p. 340; Al-Nujum al-zahira, vol. 4, p. 219; Shadharat al-dhahab, vol. 3, pp. 152-153; Nuzhat al-jalis, vol. 2, p. 319; Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, vol. 2, pp. 98-99. The nisba “al-Babbaga” is vocalised in the autograph with a kasra on the first b and a geminated, fathated second b. Al-Samʿani, in Al-Ansab, reads it with a fatha on the first b and a quiescent second; Ibn al-Athir in Al-Lubab, al-Fayumi in Al-Misbah al-munir, and the author of Al-Qamus adopt the same reading and add that the second b may also be doubled. Ibn Khallikan, in Wafayat al-aʿyan, opts for the form with a fatha on the first b and a doubled second b. The entry is omitted by al-Jawhari and the author of Lisan al-ʿArab. (1) Cf. Yatimat al-dahr, vol. 1, p. 245 ff.; Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 11, p. 12. (2) Cf. Yatimat al-dahr, vol. 1, p. 248. (3) Cf. Yatimat al-dahr, vol. 1, pp. 236 and 251-255; Wafayat al-aʿyan, vol. 3, p. 202. (4) The author quotes in Tarikh al-Islam the following lines of his poetry: “O you whose form (khulq) and character (khuluq) are alike, / Every eye travels only toward you. The ruddiness of my tears is stolen from your cheeks, / My emaciation is filched from your eyelids. No breath is left with which to complain of your love; / Only he who still has breath can complain.” He also says: “Is it not among the marvels that, though I left him, / I survived after our separation? O you who rivals the full moon at its perfection, / Have mercy on a youth who resembles it at its waning.”