and resolute, handsome in appearance, able to draw a stout bow, and a polished poet; among his verses are:
By Allah, behold what passion has done to his heart:
it ruined him the moment it reached his very core.
Too proud to do what he cannot—so vain is he—
he will not return a greeting; if you doubt it, go and try!
A gazelle of Turkic stock whose sidelong glances
have left his lover with no respite from wasting away.
Should you deny the plunder wrought by those eyes—
on the day of al-Ghuwayr they stripped us bare—then ask about it!
Oh, how graceful he is, how sweet his mouth!
He is exalted, while in loving him I am abased.
Indeed, how delicate the rose upon his cheek,
how tender—yet how pitiless the hardness of his heart!

172 – Ibn Zurayq al-Haddad, Mubarak ibn al-Mubarak ibn Ahmad*
The imam and master of Qur’an reciters, Abū Jaʿfar al-Mubarak, son of the imam Abū al-Fath al-Mubarak ibn Aḥmad ibn Zurayq al-Wāsiṭī, descendant of al-Haddad, and imam of the congregational mosque of Wāsiṭ after his father.
Birth: the year 509 AH.
He recited to his father and mastered the craft, then travelled with him to Baghdad in 532 AH, where he studied—using the Mubhij (1) and other works—under Abū Muḥammad, the grandson of al-Khayyāṭ.
He also received hadith from the Qadi of the Bimaristan, from Ismaʿil ibn al-Samarqandi, and from several others; and in Wāsiṭ from ʿAlī ibn Shiran and the judge Abū ʿAlī al-Fāriqī,