—a Mālikī from the village of al-Mālikiyya (1), a Baghdādī known as al-Ṣābūnī; his father, al-Khaffāf, followed the Ḥanbalī school.

He mastered the ten canonical Qurʾān readings under Ibn Badrān and Abū al-ʿIzz al-Qalānsī.
He also heard a large number of traditions from al-Niʿālī, Ibn al-Baṭar, Thābit ibn Bundār, and Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī.
Among those who later transmitted from him were his grandson ʿUmar ibn Karam—who recorded for him that collection of The Forty—and Ibn al-Akhdar.

Ibn al-Najjār said, “He was reliable, truthful, and thoroughly versed in the science of the readings.”
Al-Samʿānī wrote, “Trustworthy, upright, exemplary in his conduct with the Book of Allah; he earned his livelihood by the work of his own hands, and I took dictation from him.”
He told me, “I was born in 482 AH.”
I say: he passed away in Ṣafar 556 AH.
He used to make women’s leather footwear.

245 – ʿAlī ibn ʿAsākir ibn Surūr, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Maqdisī*
The trustworthy, long-lived shaykh; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Maqdisī, the timber-merchant, resident of Damascus.

He was born in 458 AH.
In 470 AH he heard (hadith) from the jurist Naṣr al-Maqdisī, and in Damascus he studied with Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd.