and Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Jalīl al-Sāwī (1), Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarāʿīnī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Nasīb, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Rāzī, together with a number of other North-African and itinerant scholars.

Ibn Mākūlā (2) said: “He was accomplished in several disciplines; in Egypt I have seen no one comparable to him.”

Ghayth al-Armanāzī remarked: “He deputised in the judiciary of Egypt, and he left several works, among them: A Concise History—from the beginning of creation up to his own time—in a single volume (3), and a book entitled The Accounts of al-Shāfiʿī.”

Another scholar said: “He also compiled a biographical dictionary of his teachers and a book called Dustūr al-Ḥukm (The Canon of Judgments). Leading ḥadith masters such as Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb and Abū Naṣr ibn Mākūlā wrote from him.”

The jurist Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm stated: “Al-Qudaʿī arrived in Ṣūr as an envoy from the Egyptians to the Byzantine territories. He left before I could hear from him directly, but later I transmitted from him on the basis of a general ijāzah.”

Al-Silafī said: “He was among the reliable, firmly grounded scholars—Shāfiʿī in both school and creed—and, on the whole, commendable (4).”

Al-Ḥabbāl reported: “He died in Egypt in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 454 AH.”