A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[464] Aghání, xix, 34, l. 18.

[465] Kámil of Mubarrad. p. 70, l. 17 sqq.

[466] Al-Kusa‘í broke an excellent bow which he had made for himself. See The Assemblies of Ḥarírí, trans. by Chenery, p. 351. Professor Bevan remarks that this half-verse is an almost verbal citation from a verse ascribed to ‘Adí b. Maríná of Ḥíra, an enemy of ‘Adí b. Zayd the poet (Aghání, ii, 24, l. 5).

[467] Ibn Khallikán (ed. by Wüstenfeld), No. 129; De Slane's translation vol. i, p. 298.

[468] Aghání, iii, 23, l. 13.

[469] Aghání, vii, 49, l. 8 sqq.

[470] The following account is mainly derived from Goldziher's Muhamm. Studien, Part II, p. 203 sqq.

[471] Cf. Browne's Lit. Hist. of Persia, vol. i, p. 230.

[472] Nöldeke, Sketches from Eastern History, tr. by J. S. Black, p. 108 seq.

[473] Wellhausen, Das Arabische Reich, p. 307.