The anonymous poet
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
as has been said · the poet · الشاعر · كما قيل
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The unnamed author of the verse on the spark and the great fire, quoted with كما قيل alone.
and the greatness of a fire is from a spark men held too small And beware of quarrelling with your household, your child, your friend, and the weak;
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
An unnamed poet whose verse is adduced to illustrate the satan's coursing within a man.
Time was I would course within their inmost parts — as the water of a spring courses in the stalks of the myrtle.
And this is the running in the son of Adam as the blood runs, as the poet said: