He quoted from the book Musālamāt al-Ashrāf (Gestures of Friendship of the Nobles) written by his paternal uncle al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad.
[1] Abd-Allah appointed him director of the government office for Fars province and it is said while there each time his salary was paid he donated almost it all to the poor.
[2] In 920 he moved to Baghdad,[9][2] and received a monthly pension of fifty dinars from the caliph Al-Muqtadir[1] in support of his literary activities which continued to his death.
To one such, Abū Hātim, he responded: His last words were in reply to Abū Alī: (These were the proverbial words of the jahiliyya poet ʿAbīd ibn al-Abraṣ uttered on the point of being put to death on the orders of the last king of Hīra, an-Nomān Ibn al-Mundir al-Lakhmi, and commanded to first recite some of his verse.
)[2][9][13][15][17] Ibn Duraid died in August of 933, on a Wednesday,[7][10][18][19][20] He was buried on the east bank of the Tigris River in the Abbasiya cemetery, and his tomb was next to the old arms bazaar near the As-Shārī 'l Aazam.