Note 98 — THE CALIPH OMAR BIN ABD AL-AZIZ AND THE POETS.[85]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
“Jamíl the Poet,” and lover of Buthaynah: see vol. ii. 102, Ibn Khallikan (i. 331), and Al-Mas’udi vi. 381, who quotes him copiously. He died A.H. 82 (= 701), or sixteen years before Omar’s reign.