Hammad Ar-Rawiya

Abū l-Qāsim Ḥammād ibn Abī Layla Sāpūr, nicknamed Ḥammād al-Rāwiya ("Ḥammād the Transmitter") (694 - 772 CE) was a Persian scholar. As he knew by heart several pieces of pre-Islamic Arabic poems, he collected and wrote them down in the Mu'allaqat

During the 16th century, the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze bought a copy of this book from one of the several book shops in Constantinople.