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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

is cited in the History of Damascus. Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUthmān al-Khiraqī and others narrated from him. His collected poems (Dīwān) are well known. He was a poet, a prose writer, and an astrologer, and his nickname was coined from the initial letters of those crafts.

Among his verses:
He is delightful from every angle—
a pleasing sight whether coming or turning away.
Were the whole world and all its pleasures
bartered for a single hour of union with him, the price would still fall short.
His glances have been unleashed upon my body;
even if they destroyed it, they would not be satisfied.
My soul has tasted the sweetness of his love;
it will neither recover nor forget, even if it should perish.

202 – Al-Sharmqānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn ibn Bundār *
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, inveterate traveler, man of letters, and jurist: Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn ibn Bundār al-Khurasānī al-Sharmqānī. Sharmqān is a small township belonging to the district of Nasa (1).

He studied under al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Musaddad ibn Qaṭan, Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, and their peers; and in Damascus he heard from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jawṣā and a number of others.

Those who transmitted from him include al-Ḥākim, Abū Saʿd al-Mālīnī, and several others. I possess a few fascicles drawn from the material he transmitted.

(*) Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq; al-Samʿani, al-Ansab, 7:326; Yaqut, Muʿjam al-Buldan, 3:338; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tahdhib Tarikh Dimashq, 2:51. (1) Yaqut writes: “A small town in Khurasan, within the mountainous district of Isfarayin; it is located four days’ journey from Nishapur.”

ذكرٌ فِي (تَارِيْخِ دِمَشْقَ) . رَوَى عَنْهُ: الحُسَيْنُ بنُ عُثْمَانَ الخِرَقيُّ وَغَيْرُهُ. (ديوَانُهُ) مَشْهُوْرٌ. وَكَانَ شَاعِراً، كَاتِباً، منجِّماً، فعُملَ مِنْ حروفِ ذَلِكَ لَهُ اللَّقبُ. وَلَهُ: مُستملحٌ مِنْ كُلِّ أَطْرَافِهِ ... مُسْتَحْسَنُ الإِقْبالِ وَالمُلْتَفَتْ لَوْ بِيْعَتِ الدُّنْيَا وَلَذَّاتُهُا ... بِسَاعَةٍ مِنْ وَصْلِهِ مَا وَفَتْ سُلِّطَتِ الأَلحَاظُ مِنْهُ عَلَى ... جِسْمِي فَلَوْ أَوْدَتْ بِهِ مَا اكْتَفَتْ وَاسْتَعْذَبَتْ رُوحِي هَوَاهُ فَمَا ... تَصْحُو وَلاَ تَسْلُو وَلَوْ أُتْلِفَتْ ٢٠٢ - الشَّرْمَقَانِيُّ أَحْمَدُ بنُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ حَمْدُوْنَ بنِ بُنْدَارَ * الإِمَامُ، الحَافِظُ، الرَّحَّالُ، الأَدِيبُ، الفَقِيْهُ، أَبُو الفَضْلِ أَحْمَدُ بنُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ حَمْدُوْنَ بنِ بُنْدَارَ الخُرَاسَانِيُّ الشَّرْمَقَانِيُّ، وَشَرْمَقَانُ: بُليدَةٌ مِنْ عملِ نَسَا (١) . سَمِعَ مِنَ: الحَسَنِ بنِ سُفْيَانَ، وَمُسَدَّدِ بنِ قَطَنٍ، وَابنِ خُزَيْمَةَ، وَأَبِي القَاسِمِ البَغَوِيِّ، وَأَبِي عَرُوْبَةَ الحَرَّانِيِّ، وَأقرَانِهِمْ، وَسَمِعَ بِدِمَشْقَ مِنْ أَبِي الحَسَنِ بنِ جَوْصَا، وَطَائِفَةٍ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: الحَاكِمُ، وَأَبُو سَعْدٍ المَالِيْنِيُّ، وَجمَاعةٌ. وَعِنْدِي أَجْزَاءٌ مِنْ فوائِدِهِ.

(*) تاريخ دمشق، الأنساب: ٧ / ٣٢٦، معجم البلدان: ٣ / ٣٣٨، تهذيب ابن عساكر: ٢ / ٥١. (١) قال ياقوت: بليدة بخراسان من نواحي إسفرايين في الجبال، بينها وبين نيسابور أربعة أيام.