Bayan haka, sai a amsa tambayar a baya a cikin wannan yaren kamar yadda aka rubuta: Passage: Mahaifin Abu Nuwas, Hānī, wanda mawaki bai taɓa sani ba, ya kasance Ba'arabe ne, zuriyar kabilar Jizani Banu Hakam, kuma soja ne a rundunar Marwan II. Mahaifiyarsa Ba'arbiya, mai suna Jullaban, ta yi aiki a matsayin mai saƙa. Tarihin rayuwar Abu Nuwas ya bambanta a ranar haihuwarsa, daga 747 zuwa 762. Wasu kafofin sun ce an haife shi ne a Basra, amma wasu asusun sun ba da rahoton cewa an haife shi ne a Damascus, Busra, ko a Ahwaz. Sunansa na ainihi shi ne al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami, 'Abu Nuwas' sunan laƙabi ne. "Mahaifin Maɗaukaki na Gashi" yana nufin dogon lokaci guda biyu da aka rataye a kafaɗunsa.
747 zuwa 762