—a Tamimi by lineage, originally from Ḥadītha, from Mosul, and a follower of the Shafiʿi school.

He was born in 492 AH.

He studied jurisprudence under al-Murtadā al-Shahrazūrī—the father of the judge Kamāl al-Dīn—and under Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Khumays al-Mawsilī, and he received instruction from al-Musallam al-Sarūjī.

He recited the Qur’an in the Seven Readings to Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Bāriʿ, and in the Ten Readings to Abū Bakr al-Marzūqī, Dawwān ibn ʿAlī, and Sibt al-Khayyāṭ (1).

He also studied law for a time in Wāsiṭ with the judge Abū ʿAlī al-Fāriqī, and he recited the variant transmissions to Abū al-ʿIzz al-Qalansī, as Ibn al-Najjar reports (2).

In Baghdad he took dictation from Asʿad al-Mihanī, learned legal theory from Abū al-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn Barhān (3), and heard ḥadith from Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, Abū al-Barakāt ibn al-Bukhārī, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, and—in 508 AH—from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ṭawq, amassing extensive knowledge.

He then returned to his homeland and began teaching in Mosul in 523 AH. Afterward he resided for a time in Sinjār, came to Aleppo in 545 AH where he lectured, and was warmly received by its ruler Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Zankī. When Nūr al-Dīn seized Damascus, Ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn accompanied him, taught at the Ghazāliyyah college, and was appointed supervisor of the endowments. He then returned to Aleppo and was subsequently entrusted