Machine summary:
The appella• tion of Al-Khair" the good" was bestowed upon his great grandfather because Kushair had another son who was called Salamat-as-Sharr, " Salamah the bad " The same author states that the name of this (Yazid's) father was Al-Mun tashir-ibn-Salamah.
The learned men of Basra held him to be the son of Al-Aawar-ibn-Kushair, which person is mentioned by Abu'I Hasan 'Ali-ibn-'Abdullah at-Tusi,' towards the commencement of Ibn-at-Tath• riya's Diwan ( collected poetical works) of which compila• tion he was the author.
One writer says : " She was born in· a year when the land was extremely fertile and there was an abnormal kithrat (abundance) of halib (milk)," but others contradict this statement and state that she gave birth to her son (this very poet) in a year of that char• acter.
Ibn-at-Tathriya appears to have heard some such suggestion as to feeding a young girl on milk and select foods as the following lines rendered into English from one of his poems would show :- · Ray Sakib=Good Advice.
The celebrated poet Abu-Tamman at-Tai2 mentions this highly· distinguished son of the Muse in different places of his Hamasa ; thus, in the section of amatory poetry, he has quoted the following lines as having been penned by Ibn- at-Tathriya :- · " 'Tis of the Okalid maid I think and dream, "Envelop'd in robes that like a sandhill seem, " In shape and smoothness, in colour like the sand, " Her waist as slender as the willow wand.