Among his poetry are the following lines:
“It is as though the stars by night were an army
that has slipped into ambush deep within a forest, (1)
And as though the dawn were a bird-hunter
whose hand has seized a crow by the leg. (2)
He passed away in Jumada I, 426 AH.
Ibn Ḥazm said, “He carried the banner of poetry and eloquence; he left no one to match him. With his death the line of his grandfather the vizier came to an end. He was large-hearted and exceedingly generous. (3)”
324 – Turāb ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd al-Miṣrī *
Abū al-Nuʿmān al-Miṣrī, the scribe.
He narrated from Abū Aḥmad ibn al-Nāṣiḥ and al-Dāraquṭnī.
Narrators from him include Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ and the qāḍī al-Khilaʿī.
He lived a little over eighty years and died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 427 AH.
325 – al-Falakī, Abū al-Faḍl ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn **