Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih

…as standard was recorded by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih and names poems by Imruʾ al-Qays, Ṭarafah ibn al-ʿAbd, Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā, Labīd, ʿAntarah, ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm, and al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥilliza. Such authorities as Ibn Qutaybah, however, count ʿAbid ibn al-Abras as one of the seven,

The entertaining prose style of Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (died 940) in his Al-ʿIqd al-farīd (“The Unique Necklace”) is similar to that of his elder contemporary Ibn Qutaybah, and his book in fact became more famous than that of his predecessor. Writers on music and philology also flourished in Spain; literary…