Al–Dailami had a son who took after him in learning...

Al–Dailami had a son who took after him in learning, as mentioned in Dumyat al–Qasr . He was the composer of Al–Ha’iyyah (verses which end in the sound ‘ ha ’) in which he says: Oh silent gentle breeze blowing from Kazimiyyah What burning passion and desire you have stirred up! His name was Abu Abdillah al–Husayn ibn Mehyar ibn Marzawaih al–Kisrawi. He died in 428 A.H.

Among them is someone whose prominence al–Mutanabbi acknowledged and confessed that he did not have the audacity to compete with him, that is Abu Firas al–Harath ibn Hamdan. No poet apart from Abu al–Tayyib al–Mutanabbi can be compared to him. We…