Malik Ibn Ar-Rayb was a Muslim and Arab poet, and was a former bandit/thief, from Basra, Iraq who lived around the same period of the 3rd Caliph Uthman bin Affan. A very few number of his poems has been published, and this self-elegy he wrote at the time of his death is the only one that has been recognized on a large scare due to its unique theme of tackling his own death in poetry. It is not clear whether he died after writing this poem or if it was merely written at a close encounter with death. Nevertheless, some authors documented that he wrote this poem after being bitten by a poisonous snake while returning from Jihad with Saeed Uthman ibn Affan, the 3rd caliph’s son; he got sick in Marw, and wrote this poem; wherein he reminisces on his life, and the feeling of death overcoming him.
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