Al-Mizzī lavished glowing praise on his pupil Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, as will be cited below, a clear sign of the strong bond between them and of the master’s delight in a student who was truly one of the fruits of his own planting. As for the rest of his teachers, we shall merely list their names, leaving the reader to consult their detailed biographies.
3 – Abū al-Faḍl Sulaymān ibn Ḥamzah, Taqī al-Dīn al-Maqdisī (d. 715 AH).
4 – Abū Bakr ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim al-Maqdisī (d. 718 AH).
5 – Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad Saʿd al-Dīn al-Anṣārī al-Maqdisī (d. 721 AH).
6 – Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Zarrād al-Ṣāliḥī (d. 726 AH).
7 – Muḥammad ibn Muslim Shams al-Dīn al-Zaynī al-Ṣāliḥī (d. 726 AH).
8 – Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Farrāʾ Majd al-Dīn al-Ḥarrānī (d. 729 AH).
9 – Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ṣāliḥī al-Ḥaǧǧār (d. 730 AH).
10 – Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Buṣkhān al-Dimashqī, the Qurʾān-reciter (d. 743 AH).
11 – Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī, the ḥāfiẓ (d. 748 AH).
12 – Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (d. 751 AH).
Commendations of the scholars for him
1 – Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī (d. 742 AH):
He was one of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī’s teachers. Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn (1) said: “Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥajjāj al-Mizzī wrote on the book ‘The Biography of Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah,’ authored by Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, the following statement: ‘A concise work outlining the condition of the Imam, Shaykh al-Islām…’”