[Sidenote: The last poets born in the Age of Paganism.] To the poets who have been enumerated many might be added--_e.g._, Ḥassán b. Thábit, who was 'retained' by the Prophet and did useful work on his behalf; Ka‘b b. Zuhayr, author or the famous panegyric on Muḥammad beginning "_Bánat Su‘ád_" (Su‘ád has departed); Mutammim b. Nuwayra, who, like Khansá, mourned the loss of a brother; Abú Miḥjan, the singer of wine, whose devotion to the forbidden beverage was punished by the Caliph ‘Umar with imprisonment and exile; and al-Ḥuṭay’a (the Dwarf), who was unrivalled in satire. All these belonged to the class of _Mukhaḍramún_, _i.e._, they were born in the Pagan Age but died, if not Moslems, at any rate after the proclamation of Islam. [Sidenote: Collections of ancient poetry.] The grammarians of Baṣra and Kúfa, by whom the remains of ancient Arabian poetry were rescued from oblivion, arranged and collected their material according to various principles. Either the poems of an individual or those of a number of individuals belonging to the same tribe or class were brought together--such a collection was called _Díwán_, plural _Dawáwín_; or, again, the compiler edited a certain number of _qaṣídas_ chosen for their fame or excellence or on other grounds, or he formed an anthology of shorter pieces or fragments, which were arranged under different heads according to their subject-matter. [Sidenote: Díwáns.] Among _Díwáns_ mention may be made of _The Díwáns of the Six Poets_, viz. Nábigha, ‘Antara, Ṭarafa, Zuhayr, ‘Alqama, and Imru’u ’l-Qays, edited with a full commentary by the Spanish philologist al-A‘lam († 1083 A.D.) and published in 1870 by Ahlwardt; and of _The Poems of the Hudhaylites_ (_Ash‘áru ’l-Hudhaliyyín_) collected by al-Sukkarí († 888 A.D.), which have been published by Kosegarten and Wellhausen. The chief Anthologies, taken in the order of their composition, are:-- [Sidenote: Anthologies. 1. The _Mu‘allaqát_.] 1. The _Mu‘allaqát_, which is the title given to a collection of seven odes by Imru’u ’l-Qays, Ṭarafa, Zuhayr, Labíd, ‘Antara, ‘Amr b. Kulthúm, and Ḥárith b. Ḥilliza; to these two odes by Nábigha and A‘shá are sometimes added. The compiler was probably Ḥammád al-Ráwiya, a famous rhapsodist of Persian descent, who flourished under the Umayyads and died in the second half of the eighth century of our era. As the _Mu‘allaqát_ have been discussed above, we may pass on directly to a much larger, though less celebrated, collection dating from the same period, viz.:-- [Sidenote: 2. The _Mufaḍḍaliyyát_.]