al-Zubayrī, the Damascene ḥadith master, and the uncle of Karīma.
Ibn al-Dubaythī (1) said: “A jurist, ḥadith scholar, and learned man who devoted himself to the study of traditions. He travelled for ḥadith, listening in Damascus, Aleppo, Ḥarrān, Mosul, Kūfa, Baghdad, and the Two Sanctuaries, and Allah granted him penetrating insight. He heard from Abū al-Durr al-Rūmī, Ibn al-Bunnī, Abū al-Waqt, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Mādiḥ, and many others. He was dispatched as an envoy to Syria and was later appointed judge of the Ḥarīm (2).
Those who narrated from him include his son ʿAbd Allah and Ibn al-Ḥuṣrī.
He died in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the year 575 AH, at the age of fifty.
51 – al-Qutb Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd al-Ṭuraythīthī*
The Imām, the erudite scholar, shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, Quṭb al-Dīn, Abū al-Maʿālī
= 5 / biography 1483; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 57 (Istanbul, Ahmed III 2917/14); al-Mukhtasar al-muhtaj ilayh, 3/101; al-Ibar, 4/224; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharāt, 4/254; and the introduction to volume 1 of Ibn al-Dubaythi’s History, ed. Bashshar. Abu al-Mahasin was one of Ibn al-Dubaythi’s principal sources, having compiled a large register of his own teachers from which later historians quoted abundantly.
(1) Dhayl Tarikh Madinat al-Salam, fol. 196 (Paris 5922).
(2) Ibn al-Najjar relates that in 566 AH he appeared before the Chief Judge Abu Talib Ruh b. Ahmad al-Hadithi, who appointed him judge of the precinct adjoining the caliphal palace and later of the Tuesday-Market quarter (Tarikh, fol. 113 – Paris).
(*) Further biographies: Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, Mir’at, 8/372; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, 5/196; Ibn al-Futi, ‘Those bearing the laqab Qutb al-Din’ from his Talkhis, 4/biography 719 (quoting Abu al-Hasan al-Qati‘i); and al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 77 (Ahmed III 2917/14).