Abu-l-'Atahiya

Abū al-ʻAtāhiyya, full name Abu Ishaq Isma'il ibn al-Qasim ibn Suwayd Al-Anzi, was one of the principal Arab poets of the early Islamic era, a prolific muwallad poet of ascetics who ranked with Bashshār and Abū Nuwās, both of whom he met. He renounced poetry for a time on religious grounds.