ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Makhzūm.

He once visited ʿAbd al-Malik, praised him in verse, and was rewarded with a large sum on account of his noble lineage and the elegance of his poetry.

He transmitted a report from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib.

Among those who narrated from him were Muṣʿab ibn Shaybah and ʿAṭṭāf ibn Khālid (1).

It is said that he joined a naval expedition; their ship caught fire, and he perished.

His verse is outstanding and widely circulated. Of it are the lines:

They yearn for the Ancient House, and—were it to speak—the House would recognize them;
If travellers such as these passed by while it was alive,
The Ḥaṭīm and Zamzam would greet their faces.

53 – Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, the caliph, Abū Khālid al-Qurashī,
The Umayyad from Damascus.

He became caliph by virtue of a covenant his brother Sulaymān had set down for him, to take effect after ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

His mother was ʿĀtika bint Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya.

He was born in the year 71 AH. Fair-skinned, large-bodied, handsome, and round-faced, he never reached middle age.

Ibn Jābir said: “Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik came to the gathering of Makḥūl. We were about to make room for him, but Makḥūl said, ‘Leave him; let him learn humility.’”

Ibn Wahb reported: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd told us, “When ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd…"