[2] The Jamharat Ash'ar al-Arab is one of five canonical primary sources of early Arabic poetry.
"[6] Al-Qurashi's choice of poems is somewhat idiosyncratic, as he includes Al-Nabigha and Al-A'sha among the seven and excludes Antarah ibn Shaddad and Al-Harith.
[9] Represented poets include Abu Layla al-Muhalhel, Urwa ibn al-Ward, and Dorayd bin Al Soma.
The fifth section contains elegies, and the sixth, "al-Mashubat", contains "testimonies of faith mingled with heresy".
[11] One of the Mashubat is by Ka'b ibn Zuhayr, famous for reciting the poem in question in front of Muhammad.