ابن الساعاتي

Ibn al-Sa'ati, the brilliant poet Baha' al-Din 'Ali b. Muhammad b. Rustam; Ibn Khallikan says he has a diwan filling two volumes of consummate mastery, and a delicate one called Muqatta'at al-Nil — from it, in fine division: 'the dew on the boughs' threads like moist pearls the breeze shakes till they fall; the bird reads, the stream is a page, the wind writes, and passion is cut.' ²

His son told him at Cairo that his father died Thursday the twenty-third of Ramadan 604 at Cairo, buried at the Muqattam's foot, aged fifty-one years, six months and twelve days. ²