as-Saffah ibn Bukair

As-Saffah ibn Bukair of Yarbu', of Tamim, composed an elegy on his chief Yahya ibn Shaddad, who died as an adherent of Mus'ab, governor of 'Iraq for 'Abdallah ibn az-Zubair. Lyall dates it precisely to A.H. 72 (A.D. 691).

He calls the piece of much historical interest.