Diwan of Al-Mutalammis Al-Dab'i

Author's name: Al-Mutalammis Al-Daba'i

Al-Mutalammis, the author of this collection, is one of the most prominent poets of the pre-Islamic era. Speaking about him is different from many of his contemporary poets, as he lived a stable urban life far from the nomadic life and travel. He was influenced by the civilizations he interacted with, and interacted with various religious cultures, and he professed the Christian faith. Poets have memorized his poetry and have been influenced by it since the pre-Islamic era. They admired what he recited, quoted from it, and attributed some of his verses to themselves, such as Al-Farazdaq, Bashar, Duraid bin Al-Samma... and others. He was famous for his satire, praise, proverbs, and his accurate description of the bull, and his self-elegy with the utmost psychological precision in his closed ra’iyyah. His fame extended to proverbs, as there is no poet from whose poetry proverbs were so popular and recorded in proverb books as the poetry of Al-Mutalammis, to the point that many of these proverbs have become immortal wisdom.