Among his verse are the following lines:

I have no helpful companion but the night—when it reaches its fullness (1) it turns away from me in cold indifference.
To it I complain of the beloved’s distance, while it complains to me of the distance of dawn.

Another of his finer poems says:

O you whose abandonment has clothed me in the garment of wasting illness,
until, because of it, I became invisible (2) to those who came to visit the sick.
I grew so accustomed to long hours of wakefulness (3)
that the lids of my eyes forgot what sleep once was.
If Joseph, by his beauty, made hands be cut,
you, by yours, shatter hearts and livers.

Al-Wahidi the Qurʼanic exegete (4): Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Mattawayh al-Wāḥidī.
Ibn Khallikān said: “I do not know what this nisbah refers to (5).”
He is the author of the three tafsirs: al-Basīṭ, al-Wasīṭ, and al-Wajīz.
He added, “From him al-Ghazālī borrowed the titles of his own books. He also wrote Asbāb al-Nuzūl and al-Taḥbīr fī Sharḥ Asmāʼ Allāh al-Ḥusnā, and he produced a commentary on the Dīwān of al-Mutanabbī; among the many commentaries on that poet, none equals his.
He was granted success in his writings; people unanimously praised them and teachers cited them in their lessons. He studied exegesis under al-Thaʿālibī (6). Al-Wāḥidī fell ill for a time, then died in Nīshābūr in Jumada II of this year—may Allah Most High show him mercy.”

Nāṣir ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī (7), Abū Manṣūr al-Turkī al-Muẓāfarī (8), father of the ḥadith master Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir, mastered the variant Qurʼanic readings and heard a great many ḥadith. He is the one who read the History aloud to al-Khaṭīb in the Mosque of al-Manṣūr. Witty and handsome, he died young, not yet thirty, in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of this year. Someone elegized him in a long poem that Ibn al-Jawzī quoted in full in al-Muntaẓam.