Ibn Sallām al-Jumaḥī

…to al-Aṣmaʿī and his student Ibn Sallām al-Jumaḥī; the latter’s Ṭabaqāt fuḥūl al-shuʿarāʾ (“Classes of Champion Poets”) categorizes poets by both period and theme without providing any principles for his judgments. It fell to their successors to provide such criteria and the theoretical justification for them. Ibn Qutaybah, for example,…