Muhammad ibn Yazid ibn Muslama

Muhammad ibn Yazid ibn Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, of the family of the Umayyad caliphs. He was in al-Jazira, in the fortress of Maslama in the district of Balkh in the territory of Raqqa. ²

Al-Mas'udi relates from Kullab ibn Hamza al-Uqayli that he knew of no Arab in the pre-Islamic or Islamic periods who described the ten horses of the race by their names, qualities and ranks except him, in his qasida beginning "We witnessed the wager." ²