Ishaq al-Mawsili

Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Mawsili, a singer. Al-Mas'udi relates from him that he once sang to al-Rashid through a night until the caliph fell asleep. A handsome young man entered, took the lute and tuned it, and sang a song the like of which had not been heard finer. Then he left without the chamberlain noticing his entry, and al-Rashid said that he had met a devil. ²

Al-Mas'udi says that al-Ma'mun incited Kulthum al-Attabi against him, and that al-Mawsili had a poem describing sanbusaj which he recited at the table of al-Mustakfi. ^{3 4}

In Ibn al-Nadim, Amr ibn Bana took from him. ⁵