son of Muḥammad, son of Naṣr, son of Manṣūr, son of Bassām—the Baghdadi poet.

In his own compositions he cites reports from al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār, ʿUmar ibn Shabbah, and their peers. Those who transmitted from him include al-Ṣūlī, Abū Sahl al-Qaṭṭān, and Zinjī the scribe. He penned biting lampoons against his own father as well as against caliphs and viziers. Concerning the Caliph al-Muʿtaḍid he wrote:

He left the people bewildered,
then slipped away to the little lake;
sitting there, beating the drum
on the rump of Durayrah. (1)

He died in 302 AH.

57 – al-Ḥusayn ibn Idrīs ibn Mubārak ibn al-Haytham al-Anṣārī
The imam, ḥadith scholar, reliable authority, and inveterate traveller, Abū ʿAlī al-Anṣārī al-Harawī—he was a man of ḥadith and discernment. He related traditions from Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, Khālid ibn Hayyāj, Dāwūd ibn Rushayd, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Suwayd ibn Saʿīd, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmmār, ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, and their contemporaries. Transmitting from him were Bishr ibn Muḥammad al-Muzanī, Manṣūr ibn al-ʿAbbās, and Abū Ḥātim ibn—