One of the greatest poets of the Arabs, lived the best days of his life and the most tender in the court Saif al-Dawah al-Hamdani in Aleppo, described as a rare time, and marvel of his time.
I who looked blind to my literary ... and heard my words of him designed

He was proud, ambitious, and adventurous. He was proud of his Arabness, proud of himself, his best poetry in wisdom, philosophy of life and description of battles. He was a creative poet, a prolific giant who is truly proud of Arab literature. He found the way in front of him as he moved in preparation for his superior poetic gift to princes and rulers, if most of his poems revolve around their praise. But his hair is not based on cost and work, to blow his feelings and ownership of the corner of the language and the statement, which gave him a color of beauty and sweetness. He left a great legacy of strong and clear poetry, which includes 326 poems, which represent the title of his biography, depicting life in the fourth century AH The clearest illustration, and indicate how the wisdom took place in his tongue, especially in his last poems, which seemed to deposit the world when he said: physical.

His name is Ahmad bin al-Hussein bin al-Hasan ibn Abd al-Samad al-Jaafi Abu al-Tayeb, a Canadian-born Cuban (303 AH-354 AH) (915 AD - 965 AD), attributed to the Kanda tribe as a result of his birth in that tribe in Kufa.