Abd al-Rahman ibn Nasr ibn Abdallah al-Shayzari

His given name and patronymic, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAbdallāh, appear consistently the same, but his laqab (cognomen) and nisba (surname) vary in the manuscripts.

[1] Little is known of al-Shayzarī's life, since he does not appear in the classical biographical dictionaries.

[1] According to Ibn Qādī Shahbā's al-Kawākib al-durrīya fiʾ l-sīrat al-Nūrīya, written some three centuries later, al-Shayzarī was a native of Syria.

[3] This is consistent with the internal evidence of his writings, which indicates at least that he spent much time in Syria.

According to Ḥājjī Khalīfa, he was a judge in Tiberias; per Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, a physician in Aleppo.