213 – al-Ḥaṣkafī, Abū al-Faḍl Yaḥyā ibn Salāmah ibn Ḥusayn
The imam, erudite scholar, preacher, and polymath—Muʿīn al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Yaḥyā ibn Salāmah ibn Ḥusayn ibn Abī Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh al-Diyārbakrī, al-Ṭanazī, al-Ḥaṣkafī, resident of Mayyāfāriqīn.
He received his literary training in Baghdad under the preacher Abū Zakariyyā al-Tibrīzī, and he excelled in the Shafiʿi school of law as well as in the literature devoted to virtuous deeds (fadāʾil).
He was born around 460 AH.
He held the Friday pulpit in Mayyāfāriqīn, presided over the issuing of legal opinions, produced a number of works, and left a collection of sermons together with a dīwān of poetry and letters.
Al-ʿImād mentions him in al-Kharīda, saying: “He was the outstanding scholar of the age in knowledge, the Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī of his time in prose and verse. His writings display exquisite parallelism, precious paronomasia, flawless correlation and verification, diction that is vigorous yet refined, meanings that are easy yet profound, and perfectly balanced divisions.” ⦗1⦘
I add: He was born in Ṭanza—a small locality in Diyar Bakr close to Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar.