Mas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān (Persian: مسعود سعد سلمان) was an 11th-century Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire who is known as the prisoner poet as well as the first poet ever of Lashkari/Lahori(Urdu) as per Amir Khosrow's tribute to him. He lived from ca. 1046 to 1121.[1]