2. The _Mufaḍḍaliyyát_,[255] by which title it is generally known after its compiler, Mufaḍḍal al-Ḑabbí († circa 786 A.D.), who made it at the instance of the Caliph Manṣúr for the instruction of his son and successor, Mahdí. It comprises 128 odes and is extant in two recensions, that of Anbárí († 916 A.D.), which derives from Ibnu ’l-A‘rábí, the stepson of Mufaḍḍal, and that of Marzúqí († 1030 A.D.). About a third of the _Mufaḍḍaliyyát_ was published in 1885 by Thorbecke, and Sir Charles Lyall has recently edited the complete text with Arabic commentary and English translation and notes.[256] All students of Arabian poetry are familiar with-- [Sidenote: 3. The _Ḥamása_ of Abú Tammám.] 3. The _Ḥamása_ of Abú Tammám Ḥabíb b. Aws, himself a distinguished poet, who flourished under the Caliphs Ma’mún and Mu‘taṣim, and died about 850 A.D. Towards the end of his life he visited ‘Abdulláh b. Ṭáhir, the powerful governor of Khurásán, who was virtually an independent sovereign. It was on this journey, as Ibn Khallikán relates, that Abú Tammám composed the _Ḥamása_; for on arriving at Hamadhán (Ecbatana) the winter had set in, and as the cold was excessively severe in that country, the snow blocked up the road and obliged him to stop and await the thaw. During his stay he resided with one of the most eminent men of the place, who possessed a library in which were some collections of poems composed by the Arabs of the desert and other authors. Having then sufficient leisure, he perused those works and selected from them the passages out of which he formed his _Ḥamása_.[257] The work is divided into ten sections of unequal length, the first, from which it received its name, occupying (together with the commentary) 360 pages in Freytag's edition, while the seventh and eighth require only thirteen pages between them. These sections or chapters bear the following titles:-- I. The Chapter of Fortitude (_Bábu ’l-Ḥamása_). II. The Chapter of Dirges (_Bábu ’l-Maráthí_). III. The Chapter of Good Manners (_Bábu ’l-Adab_). IV. The Chapter of Love-Songs (_Bábu ’l-Nasíb_). V. The Chapter of Satire (_Bábu ’l-Hijá_). VI. The Chapter of Guests (Hospitality) and Panegyric (_Bábu ’l-Aḍyáf wa ’l-Madíh_). VII. The Chapter of Descriptions (_Bábu ’l-Ṣifát_). VIII. The Chapter of Travel and Repose (_Bábu ’l-Sayr wa ’l-Nu‘ás_). IX. The Chapter of Facetiæ (_Bábu ’l-Mulaḥ_). X. The Chapter of Vituperation of Women (_Bábu Madhammati ’l-Nisá_).