Born in 557 AH, he mastered the belles-lettres in Qūṣ while remaining devout and scrupulous. He possessed a long reach in both verse and prose, distinguished by graceful composition and polished phrasing.

He was put in charge of the chancery in Qūṣ, then in the frontier district, then in Jerusalem, and later served as scribe to the ruler of Egypt. He was known for attending to people’s needs, was quick-witted, and enjoyed high esteem.

Rashīd the man of letters recited to me; al-Shihāb al-Qūṣī recited to us, saying: “The vizier Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn Shiṯ recited to us a poem of his own:”

Deal with Time, however Time may turn you,
with a contented heart and a spacious breast;
and know for certain the nights will arrive
every single day and night with something strange.

He died in Muḥarram ⦗1⦘, 625 AH.

180 – al-Sinjārī, Asʿad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Mūsā al-Sulamī *
Abū al-Saʿādāt Asʿad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Mūsā al-Sulamī, called al-Sinjārī, a Shāfiʿī debater.

A gifted poet with a collected Dīwān. He praised kings and grandees and travelled far and wide. He is the author ⦗2⦘ of the lines:

By God, how sweet were my days at Rāmah,
how pleasant my hours at Ḥājir!
So swift did they pass in their course
that the first almost stumbled over the last.