Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Ishāq b. Ḥusayn b. Manṣūr b. Muʿāwiya b. Muhammed b. ʿUthmān b. ʿUtba b. Abs b. Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān b. Ṣaḥr b. Ḥarb al-Umayyī Abū'l-Muẓaffar b. Abī'l-ʿAbbās al-Abyurdī. He was a poet. He was very knowledgeable in the Arabic language and literature, as well as in the science of nasab (genealogy). He listened to many hadith scholars. He classified Abū Warda's History and the works entitled Ansāb al-ʿArab. He also authored the book al-Muʿtalaf wa'l-Mukhtalaf and other works. It is said that he was excessively proud and arrogant, and that he once prayed as follows: "O Allah, make me the possessor of the east, west, and south of the earth."
On one occasion, at the bottom of a letter he wrote to the caliph, instead of signing his name, he wrote the epithet Ḥādim al-Muʿāwī (the servant of al-Muʿāwī). When the caliph read the letter, he erased the letter mīm at the beginning of the word al-muʿāwī, leaving the word al-ʾAwī, which means "the howling one."
One of Muhammed b. Ahmed's poems is as follows:
"Time did not recognize me nor understand that I was very precious, and that the events of time were insignificant. Time began to show me how it was deceived. And I showed it how patience (sabr) should be."