and the Alexandrian, the maternal grandson of Muʿāfā (1); the just judge Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Mubārak ibn Naghūbā al-Wāsiṭī; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn al-Ṣaydlanī (2) al-Iṣfahānī—he alone possessed an ijāza (authorization to transmit) from Bībā and Kulār; the author of The History of Khwārazm, Abū Muḥammad Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbās al-Khwārazmī al-Shāfiʿī (3); and Abū al-Fatḥ Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Marwazī al-Masʿūdī, the preacher of Marw.

328 – Ibn Bundār, Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī *
He was the leading Shāfiʿī authority: Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bundār al-Dimashqī, who took up residence in Baghdad.

He narrated from Hibat Allāh ibn al-Bukhārī and Ismāʿīl ibn al-Muʾadhdhin.

Those who narrated from him include his son—the Egyptian judge Zayn al-Dīn ʿAlī—and Abū al-Khayr al-Jīlānī.

Gifted in jurisprudence, legal theory, disputed questions, and dialectic, he taught at the Niẓāmiyya and was sent as an envoy on behalf of the caliphate. He died in Khūzistān in Shawwāl, 563 AH.