He sang the praises of the caliphs al-Mahdī and Hārūn al-Rashīd, then plunged into scandalous verse. After a spell of ascetic devotion he relapsed, sold his personal muṣḥaf, and with the proceeds bought a collection of poetry, so he was nicknamed “al-Khāsir” (“the Loser”). On one occasion al-Rashīd rewarded him with one hundred thousand. I do not know the exact year of his death, only that he died before al-Rashīd.

33 – Abū al-Malīḥ al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Raqqī * (D, Q)
The imam and hadith scholar Abū al-Malīḥ al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Raqqī—some say his name was al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAmr—performed the pilgrimage and saw ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, though I doubt he actually narrated from him. He did receive hadith from Maymūn ibn Mihrān, Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl, Ziyād ibn Bayān, and a number of others. Among those who transmitted from him are ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Raqqī, ʿAmr ibn Khālid al-Ḥarrānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Mahdī al-Maṣīṣī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī, ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿĀṣim, Abū Nuʿaym ʿUbayd ibn Hishām, and others. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and Abū Zurʿah declared him reliable. He was born around 90 AH and died in al-Raqqa in 181 AH.