131 – al-Zaynabī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad

He was al-Ṣadr al-Akmal, Chief Judge (Qāḍī al-Quḍāt): Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī, son of Nūr al-Hudā Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī, al-ʿAbbāsī, al-Zaynabī, al-Baghdādī, the Ḥanafī.

Born: 477 AH.

He received ḥadith from his father, from his uncle—the naqīb Ṭirād—from Ibn al-Baṭr, and from a number of others.

A group of scholars narrated from him, the last of them being al-Fath ibn ʿAbd al-Salām.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He possessed abundant learning and keen intellect. He was dignified, calm, grave, and steadfast. He was appointed to the judiciary of Iraq in 513 AH. I read two fascicles to him.”

Aḥmad ibn Shāfiʿ said: “He used to summon senior shaykhs such as Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn and Ibn Kādash, and readings would be carried out for him in their presence. He travelled to Mosul, and when al-Rāshid was deposed—he too was in Mosul at the time—al-Rāshid asked al-Zaynabī to annul the decree of deposition and confirm the legitimacy of his caliphate, but al-Zaynabī refused. Consequently Zinkī ibn Āq-Sunqur subjected him(1) to some torture and intended to kill him, but Allah averted that. He was imprisoned for a long period, after which he returned to Baghdad and his position was restored.”

Abū Shujāʿ Muḥammad ibn al-Dahhān said: “It was said that since al-Zaynabī assumed the office of judge, he never