I had once granted my eyelids manumission from tears, yet my longing for you has brought them back into bondage. (1)

Among the polished verse transmitted by the judge Ibn Khallikān is the following:
I said to her:
“You were miserly toward me while I was awake—
so be generous in my sleep to one consumed by passion.”
She replied:
“And now you even lie down to sleep,
still hoping I shall visit you in a dream?!” (2)

He added that ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Muʿtazz was the one who dubbed him “Jaḥẓa,” on account of his unprepossessing appearance.
As one of his satirists put it:
“I am told that Jaḥẓa has borrowed the bulge of his eyes
from a chessboard elephant and from a crab.
Alas for his drinking companions—
they must suffer the pain of their eyes for the delight of their ears.” (3)

Ibn Khallikān said: “He died in 326 AH; others say 324 AH, at Wāsiṭ, and his body was carried to Baghdad.” (4)
Al-Khaṭīb states: “He was born in 224 AH.” (5)

Ibn al-Mughallis the Ẓāhirī jurist (6): ʿAbdallāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Mughallis, Abū al-Ḥasan, the well-known Ẓāhirī scholar. He authored useful works for his school of law, studied jurisprudence under Abū Bakr ibn Dāwūd, and transmitted ḥadīth from ʿAbdallāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd al-Qanṭarī, Abū Qilābah al-Raqqāshī (7), and others. A trustworthy and distinguished jurist, he was the one who spread Dāwūd’s teachings in those lands. He died suddenly of apoplexy.

Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī (8): ʿAbdallāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād ibn Wāṣil ibn Maymūn, Abū Bakr, a Shāfiʿī jurist of Naysābūr and a client of Abān ibn ʿUthmān.