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This new material deserve: consideration by students of Arabic literature, as it is a definite improve ment on what I have already written in this connection and enables u: · to give a proper place to Ibn-Abi- 'Aun among his contemporaries.
), who mentions a certain lbn-Abi-'Aun in th: following words :- (View the image of this page) He says that Harnmad-u'Ajrad (died r67 H.
Georg Zaiden in his History of Arabic Literature mentions Ibn-Abi-'Aun among the scholars of the znd century, but almost all chroniclers have recorded his life in the events of the 3rd century.
Thus we conclude that Abu·'Aun, by whose name the author of Kitiib-al• Tashbihii: is known was the grandfather and Mohammad ibn Abi-'Aun the father of our author.
Nothing is mentioned of this Mohammad ibn Abi- 'Aun (our author's father) in the sources which deal with the life of the author of Kitab-al• Tashbihci.
). We have no definite proof to show that he was the same Mohammad ibn Abi- 'Aun who was the father of the author of Kitab al- r.
The above-mentioned characteristics are noticed in the person of this Mohammad ibn Abi - 'Aun also.
Ibn-Abi·'Aun's grandfather is said to have been master of Muslim scholasticisrn and an able author of many works in philosophy.
The facts are that Yaqut in his biography of Ibn-Abi-Aun mentions that Abu- 'Au.
1 This love of al-Mutawakkil or yellow is vividly depicted by Abu-'Aun in the following verses which .
Ibn-al-Nadim says that Ibn-Abi-'Aun was a Ibn-Khallikan, Vol. I, Wustenfeld, p.