a prominent shaykh and accomplished scribe whose penmanship was praised.
He received ḥadith from Abū Muslim al-Simnānī, Thābit ibn Bundār, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Siwār, Ibn al-ʿAllāf, and several others.
He was truthful and transmitted abundantly.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Akhḍar, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Bandanījī, his son Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿfar, and others.
He was born in 490 AH and died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah 568 AH.
He bore the honorific Muhadhdhab al-Dawlah and was appointed supervisor of the Bureau of Constructions (1).
314 – al-Ṣāʾin ibn ʿAsākir, Abū al-Ḥusayn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan*
The shaykh, imām, scholar, jurist, mufti, and ḥadith transmitter Ṣāʾin al-Dīn, Abū al-Ḥusayn (2) Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī, a Shāfiʿī known as Ibn ʿAsākir and the brother of the ḥāfiẓ (3).
He was born in 488 AH.
He recited the various Qurʾānic readings under Abū al-Waḥsh Subayʿ, a disciple of al-Ahwāzī, and under