[374] The Kámil of al-Mubarrad, ed. by W. Wright, p. 215, l. 14 sqq.
[375] Ibn Qutayba, Kitábu ‘l-Ma‘árif, p. 202.
[376] Al-Fakhrí, p. 173; Ibnu ’l-Athír, ed. by Tornberg, v, 5.
[377] Ibid., p. 174. Cf. Mas‘údi, Murúju ’l-Dhahab, v, 412.
[378] His mother, Umm ‘Áṣim, was a granddaughter of ‘Umar I.
[379] Mas‘údí, Murúju ’l-Dhahab, v, 419 seq.
[380] Ibnu ’l-Athír, ed. by Tornberg, v, 46. Cf. Agání, xx, p. 119, l. 23. ‘Umar made an exception, as Professor Bevan reminds me, in favour of the poet Jarír. See Brockelmann's Gesch. der Arab. Litteratur, vol. i, p. 57.
[381] The exhaustive researches of Wellhausen, Das Arabische Reich und sein Sturz (pp. 169-192) have set this complicated subject in a new light. He contends that ‘Umar's reform was not based on purely ideal grounds, but was demanded by the necessities of the case, and that, so far from introducing disorder into the finances, his measures were designed to remedy the confusion which already existed.
[382] Mas‘údí, Murúju ’l-Dhahab, v, 479.
[383] The Arabic text and literal translation of these verses will be found in my article on Abu ’l-‘Alá's Risálatu ’l-Ghufrán (J.R.A.S. for 1902, pp. 829 and 342).