Amara bin Hamza, his biography and his relationship with the Abbasid state
Abstract
Umara bin Hamza bin Malik bin Yazid bin Abdullah bin Maimon the writer, from the son of Abi Lababah Ikrimah, slave of Abdullah bin Al-Abbas Al-Nadim described it in his book Al-Fihrast, saying: Umara Bin Hamzah, the writer of Abu Jaafar Al-Mansour and his master, and he was a wanderer, an admirer, a horse, generous, eloquent, eloquent, blind, blood. Abu Jaafar and Al-Mahdi used to present him, and tolerate his morals, because of his virtue, eloquence, sufficiency, the necessity of his rights, and a guardian for them great works. And he has a group of letters, including the message of Thursday, which is read to Bani al-Abbas, and the successors of the Banu al-Abbas cut him many properties that he used to spend in good deeds. , Al-Yamamah, Bahrain, and Al-Ard (from the areas of the Levant). Amara was generous, secretive, grandiose, high-minded, many merits, and he had good news, and Abu al-Abbas used to know building with pride, height and intensity of hiking.