Among his verses:
His face reflects the full moon of the sky; were he to rise beside that moon, people would say, “Here is its twin.”
He matches the meadow’s blossoms in beauty, for on his two cheeks the flower’s very core and its counterpart have appeared.
From him I have inherited the waist’s own wasting away, for—like that slender waist—he now lays upon me what I cannot endure.

219 – al-Yaldānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Munaʿim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

Shaykh, Imām, traditionist, transmitter of hadith, indefatigable traveller, Taqī al-Dīn, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of Abū al-Fahm ʿAbd al-Munaʿim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Munaʿim ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Yaldānī, a Damascene and follower of the Shāfiʿī school.

He was born in Yaldān at the beginning of 558 AH. He began the pursuit of hadith when already advanced in years, travelled widely, and heard narrations from: Yaḥyā ibn Būsh, Ibn Kulaib, al-Mubārak ibn al-Maʿṭūsh, Hibat Allāh ibn al-Sibṭ, Dulaf ibn Qūfā, Baqāʾ ibn Jund, and their peers. In Damascus he studied under Yūsuf ibn Maʿālī al-Kinānī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Khushūʿī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Fayrūz, al-Bahāʾ ibn ʿAsākir, and several others; and in Mosul under Abū Manṣūr Muslim ibn ʿAlī al-Siyāḥī (1). He committed a vast amount to writing, distinguished by accuracy, probity, insight, the ability to impart knowledge, and piety.

He transmitted prolifically; those who related from him include his grandson ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Dimyāṭī, and al-Badr ibn—