and they wiped out the Lamtuna dynasty, and their dominion endured for one hundred and thirty years, until the Banū Marīn rose up against them; the kingship has remained in their hands for seventy years to this day. The realm of the jurist-king Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī al-Marīnī has become mighty: all the Maghrib submits to him, the ruler of Tlemcen has been killed, he commands a vast army and possesses formidable prestige, and he is noted for piety, justice, and learning.
217 – Ibn al-Shibl Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Sāmī *
The poet of the age, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. al-Shibl (1) b. Usāmah al-Sāmī (2), al-Baghdādī, al-Ḥarīmī.
He left a celebrated dīwān (collection of poems).
He transmitted reports from Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Bādī (3) and others.
Narrated from him were: Ismāʿīl b. al-Samarqandī, Abū al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-Salām, Abū Saʿd b. al-Zawzanī, Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī, and others.
His poetry stands at the summit (4).