, Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Qurashī, the Damascene Shāfiʿī, who was also known as Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh.

He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ, al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, the jurist Naṣr al-Maqdisī, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Burrī, and a number of others; from the judge al-Khilaʿī in Egypt and others besides; and from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Dabīqī in ʿAkkā. He attended the lessons of the jurist Naṣr and studied jurisprudence under him.

In the year 510 AH he deputized for his father in the judiciary when the latter left for the pilgrimage, and afterward he held the judgeship on his own.

Those who transmitted from him include his nephew, the ḥadith scholar Abū al-Qāsim, who said: “He was upright, chaste, and resolute in passing judgment.” He was born in 467 AH.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He was praiseworthy, of good conduct, kind and dignified, handsome in appearance, and cordial.”⦗1⦘

Among those who reported from him were al-Samʿānī, Ibn ʿAsākir⦗2⦘, his own son, Ṭarkhān al-Shāghūrī, Abū al-Maḥāsin ibn Abī Luqmah, and others.

He was the forefather of the dynasty of judges known as the Banū al-Zakī.

He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 537 AH and was buried beside his father in the Qadam Mosque.⦗3⦘