Arabic & Persian

'Abd-Allah ibn Salimah

6th century


'Abd-Allah ibn Salimah belonged to Ghamid, a division of the Azd Shanu'ah in the northern Sarat of the Yaman. Lyall records nothing of his age or history.

The two pieces in the Mufaddaliyat are fragments, only a small part of the poems they once belonged to.

  1. Ode XVIII: Alas ! Janub has cut the
  2. Ode XIX: Whose remnants of dwellings are these

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