[1] He was born in Medina and resided in Hijaz and Egypt.
In his poems he was occupied with his unfulfilled love to a married woman named 'Azza.
He made acquaintance of the governor Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan and the caliphs Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz and Yazid II.
[2] He is mentioned as one of the followers of the now-extinct Kaysaniyya sect of Shi'ism, which held that Ali's third son Muhammad ibn Al-Hanafiyya would return as the Mahdi.
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