, amīr, probably a native of Ḵh̲ars̲h̲ana in Cappadocia, sometimes designated (through a factitious genealogy?) by the name of Badr b. ʿAmmār al-Asadī. Chamberlain to the caliph al Ḳāhir and in high favour under al-Rāḍī, he followed the amīr al-umarā Ibn Rāʾiḳ ([ q.v.]; Canard, Histoire de la dynastie des Hamdânides , Algiers 1951, 411-24), when the latter was charged with the government of D̲j̲azīra and Syria-Palestine. Badr became lieutenant of Ibn Rāʾiḳ, received the government of the d̲j̲und of Jordan, and resided at Tiberias (beginning of 328/en…

, “he who professes to be a prophet”, the surname by which the Arab poet Abu ’l-Ṭayyib Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-D̲j̲uʿfī is usually known (cf. in Ibn K̲h̲allikān, Wafayāt , Cairo 1310, i, 36, two genealogies, which do not agree, going back to his great-grandfather). Abu ’l-Ṭayyib was born in Kūfa in 303/915 in the Kinda quarter, whence the ethnic al-Kindī sometimes given him. His family, although in very humble circumstances, claimed descent from the Yamanī clan of the D̲j̲uʿfī, and he himself all his lif…