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Riidak, & district situated n/iar Samarqand. His full name was Abu
'Abdu'jlah Ja'far ibn Muhammad; he was "the first to produce good
poetry in Persian," and he died in 329/940-1. See the late Dr Hermann*
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lathe's monumental paper Rtidagi, der Salnamdendifhter . The vocalization
Rawdhaki also occurs, with the addition of the names of the
poet's grandfather (Hakim)*, great-grandfather ('Abdu'r-Rahman), and
great-great-grandfather (Adam). See rhy Hand-list of Muhammadan
Manuscripts (Cambridge, 1900), No. 701, pp. 125-6.
Abu'l-'Abbas as-Ribanjani's
fulr name was Fadl ibn 'Abbas.
See 'Awfi's Lubdb, vol. ii, p. 9. Ribanjan (the correct reading is due to
the late Professor de is Goeje) a city near Sughd and Samarqand, given
It is also mentioned in
by Yaqiit in the corrupt form " Rabaykhan."
the Ansdb of as-Sam'ani (Gibb Series, Vol. xx, ,ff. 23 b ,.and 248 b ) as
Atbinjan and Rabinjan. Mirza Muhammad has furnished me with a
fresh reference to this Abu'l-'Abbas in the Thimdrrfl-Qulub (Cairo ed.,
p. 147) of ath-irha'alibi, where some Persian verses (a good deal
corrupted in the printed text) from an unlucky qasida which he com-
posed on the occasion of a festival in the thirty-first and last year of the
reign of his patron Nasr ibn Ahmad the Samanid (A.H. 331 = A.D. 942-3)
are cited.
Abu'l-Mathal of Bukhara is mentioned in the Lubdb (ii, 26)
and in Asadi's Glossary (ed. P. Horn, p. 28). The vocalization "Mathal"
is proved by a verse of Mintichihri's in which mention is made of ten old
Persian poets, all of whom are identified by Mirza Muhammad, who
cites the verse (pp. 127-9 f the Persian notes). Of these the most
interesting is Shahid of Balkh, who resembles 'Umar Khayyam in this,
that his real fame as a philosopher has amongst his countrymen been
eclipsed by his fame as a poet, though he was much more notable in the
former than in the latter capacity. He is mentioned in the Fihrist,
p. 299, as a doughty antagonist of Abii Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya ar-
EJazi (the great physician), who wrote a treatise in refutation of some of his
opinions. Yaqut also mentions him in his article on Jahudhdnak near
Balkh, the village in which he was born, while Tha'alibi reckons him as
one of the four greatest men produced by that ancient city. The correct
reading in this last case is given in the Paris MS.' of the Yatimatu'd-
*'Dahr; in the printed text it appears as "Sahl ibn'u'l- Hasan" instead of
"Shahidu ibnu'l-Husayn." That he predeceased Riidaki, who died in
329/940-1, is proved by a verse in which that poet laments tys death.
He is casually mentioned, as Mirza, Muhammad points ouf. to me, in
two passages in Yaqiit's " Dictionary of Learned Men"
( (Gibb Series, vi,
i, pp. 143 and 149), and an article on him was included in the lost
fourth volume of this work. 'Awfi also relates* a short and rather pointless
story about him in the Jawdmfrfl-Hikdydt (Brit. MUS. MS.
Or. 2676, f. 235 b ).
Abu Ishaq-i-Juybari's personal name, according to tiie^Lubdb
(iif 1 1) and Asadi's Glossary (p. 17), was Ibrahim, and his father's name
was Muhammad. The Juybar from which he derived his nisba was
apparently situated near Bukhara.
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Gottinger Nachrichten, 1873, pp. 663-742.