Ibn al-Najjār said: “He was a first-rate scholar, exacting, a skilled debater, ascetic, devoted in worship, and above reproach. He served as judge of the Ḥarīm ⦗1⦘ for thirty years.
He died in Shaʿbān of the year 477 AH at the age of seventy-six. He had been a disciple of the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib and held a circle for debate in the Qasr Mosque ⦗2⦘.
186 – al-Anṭākī, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar * (mentioned previously)
The judge, jurist, and hadith transmitter Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Anṭākī, a Shāfiʿī from the Shāghūr quarter.
He lived in Shāghūr ⦗3⦘.
He was born in 394 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Tammām al-Rāzī and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr, and he was the last of Tammām’s pupils.
Among those who narrated from him are Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Hibat Allah ibn al-Akfānī, Jamāl al-Islām Abū al-Ḥasan al-Sulamī, ʿAlī ibn Qubays al-Mālikī, and others.
He deputized for the Sharif Abū al-Faḍl ibn Abī al-Jinn ⦗4⦘ in the judiciary of Damascus.