as well as that of ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah and his fellow post-classical poets; and the verse of Abū Nuwās, al-Mutanabbī, Abū Tammām and their contemporaries among the later poets. Indeed, they also heard assorted statements and individual legal opinions that convey the jurisprudence of Mālik, al-Thawrī, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Abū Ḥanīfah, al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Isḥāq ibn Rāhūyah and other scholars, together with scattered reports illustrating the justice and exemplary conduct of ʿUmar ibn