Career
His work consists solely of love poems (ghazal). It is "primarily concerned with the hopelessness of love, and the personae in his compositions seems resigned to a relationship of deprivation". The vocabulary he chose was simple and his style is fluent and easy. who employed him for the purpose of amusing him in time of leisure.
His work was an acknowledged influence on Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz and Abu al-Atahiya.
