and he also composed graceful verse (1). On one occasion he donned women’s clothes, struck the lute, burned incense, observed the planet Venus, and used to wear beneath his turban a pointed cap like the Bedouins. He made uncanny forecasts that can mislead the uninformed (2). Qadi Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān—and those before him—declared him upright; yet there is no might nor power except with Allah (3). He possessed chains of transmission of notably high rank. He died in Shawwāl 399 AH.

70 – al-Jīzī, Abū ʿAbd Allah Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad *

The judge, eminent scholar, and unrivaled Qur’an reciter, Abū ʿAbd Allah Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Maḥfūẓ (4), an Egyptian from Giza.

He recited the Qur’an to Abū al-Fatḥ (5) ibn Budhan, and he heard hadith from Aḥmad ibn Buhzād al-Sīrāfī and Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jāmiʿ,