He left a small dīwān (collection of verse) in which little space is given to panegyric, while his poetry stands at the very apex (1). He is the one who said:
How could the grass of my longings ever fade
while my roving glance is still astir?
If love has a single free man,
then I am the captive slave;
And if beauty must pay its alms,
then I am that needy pauper. (2)
He passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 468 AH.
206 – Ḥaydara ibn ʿAlī, Abū al-Munajjā (3) al-Qaḥṭānī al-Anṭākī
The leading imam of the science of dream interpretation.
He studied under Ibn Abī Naṣr and a group of others; those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Akfānī, Jamāl al-Islām, ʿAlī ibn Qubays, and others.
Ibn al-Akfānī said: “He used to claim that he had memorised, in the discipline of dream interpretation, ten thousand three hundred folios (4).”
He added: “His shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Shahrazūrī had memorised ten thousand folios on the subject.”
I say: that would amount to forty substantial volumes.