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But as-Suyuti, though he mentions Hasan in the Ifusn al• Muba Through as-Sakhawi" we learn that another name of honour given to al-Hijazi was Abu'l-' Abbas Zakiy ad-Din, but all his biographers agree that he was known to the public by the appellation of ash-Shihab .
i)L ':/1 ~" (View the image of this page) An important fact to which the list of al-Hijazi's teachers bears witness is that he was sent to school at a very early age.
H. he composed an elegy on the death of his teacher, the great critic and historian Ibn Hajar, in which al-Hijazl pays homage to the memory of the encyclopedic writer of the age.
In his great work I:Iaji Khalifa mentions more than a dozen books on varied subjects by al-Hijazi, but the list does not include the book before us.
)1(View the image of this page) At the time of compilation the author seems to have kept in view books like the ' Uyun al-Akhbar of Ibn-Qutayba and the 'lqd of Ibn• 'Abdi-Rabbihi.
of life ' has not been ignored at any stage by the author : (View the image of this page) CHARACTERISTICS OF THE Boos Here it will not be out of place to give translation of some passages from the book which may help the reader to understand its nature.
First of all the author quotes a saying of Khuraym about the state of blissful life.
Our author quotes certain Greek philosophers and their sayings.