Abū Firās, al-Ḥārith b. Saʿīd b. Ḥamdān (320–357/932–968), a Shiʿi poet and cousin of Sayf al-Dawla al-Ḥamdānī. In 318/930 Abū Firās's father became the ruler of Mawṣil (Mosul), where Abū Firās was probably born (Ibn al-Athīr, 8/217; ʿAbd al-Mahdī, 26, 82). Some sources, however, maintain that he was born in Manbij (see al-Amīn, 4/307). He was only three years old when, as the result of political rivalries between members of his family, his father was k…