Al-Farazdaq
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Hammam Ibn Ghalib Al-Tamimi, more commonly known as Al-Farazdaq or Abu Firas, was a 7th-century Arab poet and orator who was born in the Rashidun Caliphate of Umar and flourished during the Umayyad Caliphate. Wikipedia
Died: 728 AD, Basrah, Iraq
Full name: Hammam ibn Ghalib
Books: Kitāb An-naqāʼid
Born: 641 AD/20 AH; Kazma, Rashidun Caliphate (now in Kuwait)
Parents: Ghālib ibn ṣaʻṣaʻah, Ghalib bin Sa'sa', and Linah bint Qarazah
Notable work: Poem on the entry of Zayn al-Abidin into the Haram of the Kaaba