While in Hadith Sciences, he learned to Abu Walid ibn Ziyad, Muktamir bin Sulaiman, Yahya bin Said al-Qattan, and Azhar bin Sa'ad as-Samman. He also learned the Qur'an to Ya'qub al-Hadrami. Abu Nawas learn Arabic literature to Abu Zayd al-Ansari and Abu Ubaidah. Even so, his poetry is also loaded with sprirtual value, in addition to the ideals of humanity and justice. Youth full of controversial behavior that makes Abu Nawas appear as a unique figure in the literary treasures of Arab Islam.
In this city of Abu Nawas studied various sciences. While his mother was Jalban, Persian woman who worked as a wool wash cloth. His father, Hani al-Hakam, a member of the military legions of Marwan II. Abu Nawas also appeared several times in the story of the Thousand and One Nights. Abu Nawas was an Arab poet and is considered as one of the greatest poets of classical Arabic literature. He was born in 145 H (747 AD) in the city of Ahvaz in Persia (now Iran), with the blood of the father of the Arab and Persian coursing through his mother. The entertaining stories are full of gems of wisdom, ideas on justice and morality in day-to-day relations between people and animals, and between animals and animals in a world in which brute force is pitted against cleverness and wits, which always triumphs.Abu Nawas real name was Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami. In addition to the Abunuwas tales, there are other stories, which come from the Swahili story telling tradition. Many of the tales appear also in the classic One Thousand and One Nights in which Harun Al Rashid is at the centre as the wise and just Sultan. His tales spread far and wide in the Arab countries around the Mediterranean Sea but also in Turkey, Uzbekistan and beyond. Abu Nawas, the nickname of their author, lived in Baghdad, Iraq, during the reign of Harun Al Rashid (763-809) and was considered the most accomplished Arab poet of his age. Hadithi za Abunuwasi have become an integral part of Swahili literature. Whilst the Abunuwasi tales are available in English translations from the Arabic originals, these translations into English from an early Swahili edition add a new and interesting dimension to them.Ībunuwas (or Abu Nawas) tales are loved by young and old readers alike throughout the world and on the East African coast which has had centuries old contacts with Arab traders and Islamic scholars. The stories were first published in 1935. Tales of Abunuwas and Other Stories are translations of Hadithi za Abunuwasi na Hadithi Nyingine, from Swahili into English by John Lewis-Barned and retold here by his daughter Suzi Lewis-Barned.
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