Career
When Timur took Baghdad, 'Abd al-Hayy was sent to Samarkand, in either 1393 or 1401, where he spent the rest of his life. In his album Dust Muhammad attributed one painting to 'Abd al-Hayy. It was detached from a copy of the Divan ('Collected poems') of Khwaju Kermani copied at Baghdad in 1396.
The scene of a sleeping youth visited by angels is in the same style as the other paintings in the manuscript, one of which is signed by JUNAYD. Dust Muhammad may have attributed the painting to 'Abd al-Hayy because it includes a drawing on the wall of a woman holding an infant and standing in a rocky landscape.
