and he is the one who said (1):
Dew, strung along the strands of branches like glistening pearls—
moist; the breeze greets it and it tumbles.
The birds recite, the brook their open page;
the wind writes, and the clouds supply the dots.
He died in Ramadan (2) of the year 604 AH, at a little over fifty years of age (3).
As for his brother, he rose in the medical profession until he became vizier to al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam, sharing his company while playing the ʿūd.
237 – ʿAbd al-Mujīb ibn Abī al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zuhayr ibn Zuhayr *
The distinguished client, a righteous man, Abū Muḥammad al-Baghdādī.
His uncle ʿAbd al-Mughīth (4) had him audition hadith from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Yūsufī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, and ʿAbd al-Ṣabūr al-Harawī.
He travelled as an envoy to al-ʿĀdil in the year 600 AH, visited Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem), and was devoted to recitation, completing a full reading of the Quran each day.
(1) Diwan, vol. 2, p. 4.
(2) He died on Thursday the twenty-third of that month and was buried on the lower slope of al-Muqattam.
(3) His son told Ibn Khallikan that “he was fifty-one years, six months, and twelve days old,” whereas al-Zaki al-Mundhiri, in the Takmila, puts his age at “forty-eight years, seven months, and twelve days.”
(*) Principal sources: Ibn al-Dubaythi, Tarikh, fols. 190–191 (Paris MS 5922); Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, Mirat al-zaman 8/537–538; al-Mundhiri, Takmila li-wafayat al-naqala 2, no. 999; Abu Shama, Dhayl al-rawdatayn, p. 62; Ibn al-Sa‘i, al-Jamiʿ al-mukhtasar 9/254–255; Najib al-Harani, Mishyakha, fols. 93–94; Ibn al-Bukhari, Mishyakha, fol. 14; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-islam 18/1/167–168 and al-Ibar 5/10; al-Baghdadi, al-Mukhtasar al-muhtaj ilayh, fol. 88; Badr al-Ayni, Aqd al-juman 17, fol. 312; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-zahira 6/195; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-dhahab 5/12–13.
(4) Mentioned above; he died in 583 AH (1187–88 CE).