Al-Abbār said: “He was one of the ascetic scholars. He taught the Quran and jurisprudence, mastered various disciplines, and possessed an exceptionally vast memorized corpus, above all the Muwaṭṭaʾ and the two Ṣaḥīḥs. He would say, ‘I have never memorised anything and then forgotten it.’ He was devoted to the Sunnah, early reports, and the sciences of the Quran, while also having a share in grammar and poetry and an inclination toward asceticism, along with piety and humility. He commanded great respect in people’s hearts yet remained exceedingly modest and full of virtues.
He passed away in Valencia in Dhū al-Qaʿda, 564 AH.

333 – Al-Zakī ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī*
Chief Judge of Damascus, the scholar Zakī al-Dīn, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī, son of the judge al-Muntaǧab Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad, son of the judge al-Zakī Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī, a Shafiʿī.
A devout, upright jurist and scholar, whose judgments were universally praised. He requested to be relieved of the judiciary and was granted his request. He performed the pilgrimage by way of Iraq, returned, spent a year in Baghdad, and there he died.
He heard hadith from ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamzah and others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Khashshāb, Abū Ṭālib ibn ʿAbd al-Samīʿ, and Ibn al-Akhaḍar.
He was born in 507 AH and died in Shawwāl 564 AH.