He was born in 130 Hijri in the area of Ain al-Tamar (Shafatha) in Karbala, he grew up in the city of Kufa and lived in the city of Baghdad.
Adiba was a well-known poet and writer as he was writing up to one hundred and fifty verses a day.
His collection was published by "Dar Sadir" and "Dar Beirut" printing centers with (511) pages, as he also has a modern manuscript in the Egyptian Book House. One of the Jesuit fathers has read it and copied it later after arranging it alphabetically and explaining some of its contentsm it was named (The Bright Lights In The Collection Of Abu Al-Atahiyah).
Abu al-Atahiyah has worked at the beginings of his life as a jars salesman, then he contacted the caliphs and made his way up next to them. He stopped poetry for a period, then the Abbasid ruler "Al-Mahdi" had heard about that, so he imprisoned him then brought him back and threatened to kill him if he didn’t write poetry, so he got back to it.
Abu al-Atahiyah has died in 211 Hijri and was buried in the cemetery of Quraish next to the holy shrine of Imam Musa bin Jaafar Al-Kadhim (peace be upon him) as he requested in his will.
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Source:
The Book of the Poets of Karbala: by Salman Hadi Al-To'ma – The Karbala Center for Studies and Research Vol. 1.
