Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 12… (1911)
“ HAMMĀD AR-RĀWIYA [Abū-l-Qāsim Ḥammād ibn Abī Laila Sāpūr (or ibn Maisara) ] (8th century A.D.) , Arabic scholar, was of Dailamite descent, but was born in Kufa. The date of his birth is given by some as 694, by others as 714. He was reputed to be the most learned man of his time in regard to the “days of the Arabs” (i.e. their chief battles) , their stories, poems, genealogies and dialects. ”
