and of Maʿn ibn Zāʾidah and others of the same mould; and accounts illustrating the forbearance of al-Aḥnaf ibn Qays, Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān, and their peers; and items that preserve the poetry of Imruʾ al-Qays, al-Nābighah, Labīd, and their fellow ancient poets, along with the verse of al-Farazdaq and Jarīr,