Ahmad ibn A'tham

Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī al-Kindī was a 9th-century Arab Muslim historian (akhbārī), poet and preacher (qāṣṣ) active in the late 8th and early 9th centuries. He was a Shīʿī, a son of a student of the sixth Imam, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, who died in 765.