al-Qaysī (1), the Andalusian, better known as Ibn al-Ḥaddād and holder of the office of nāẓir al-dīwān al-kabīr (Inspector of the Great Chancery).
Al-Abbār states in his History: “He was from the town of Wādī Āsh (2). He later resided in Almería and was counted among the foremost poets. He wrote a treatise on ʿarūḍ (Arabic prosody). He devoted himself to al-Muʿtaṣim ibn Ṣumādih, lavishing on him a flood of panegyrics; then he left for Zaragoza and lived under the patronage of al-Muqtadir ibn Hūd (3).”
He adds that the poet died sometime around the year 480 AH.
319 – al-Bazdawī, Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn*
The shaykh of the Ḥanafīs and leading scholar of Transoxiana: Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Bazdawī, the originator of the authoritative method within the school (4).
Al-Samʿānī said: “No one has transmitted anything from him to us except his companion, Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Khaṭīb (5).”
(1) In Hadiyat al-Arifin the name is misprinted as “al-Fishi.”
(2) Al-Himyari writes: “Wadi Ash is a large, important Andalusian town close to Granada, around which rivers and streams flow constantly …”; see al-Rawd al-Mitar.
(3) Consult al-Dhakira, vol. 1, part 2, p. 692, and the poet’s verses cited in the biographical sources listed below.
(*) Main biographical and bibliographical sources: al-Ansab 2:188-189; Muʿjam al-Buldan 1:409; al-Lubab 1:146; al-Jawahir al-Mudiyya 2:594-595; Taj al-Tarajim, pp. 30-31; Miftah al-Saʿada 2:184-185; Tabaqat al-Fuqaha by Taskopri, p. 85; Kataʾib Aʿlam al-Akhbar no. 286; al-Tabaqat al-Saniyya no. 1535; Kashf al-Zunun 1:112, 467, 553, 563, 568; 2:1016, 1485, 1581; al-Fawaʾid al-Bahiyya, pp. 124-125; Hadiyat al-Arifin 1:693. The nisba al-Bazdawi (initial b open, medial z silent, d open, final w) goes back to the fortress of Bazda (also Bazduwa), located six farsakhs from Nasaf; the shorter form Bazdi is also used.
(4) He is also called Fakhr al-Islam al-Bazdawi and, because of the complexity of his writings, is known as Abu al-Usr, whereas his brother is nicknamed Abu al-Yusr for the accessibility of his works; see Miftah al-Saʿada 2:185.
(5) See al-Ansab 2:188.