known as al-Būsīrī, the Egyptian, a man of letters and an accomplished scribe.

He was born in 506 AH.

He attended the sessions of al-Silafī and heard traditions from Abu Ṣādiq Murshid ibn Yaḥyā al-Madani, Muḥammad ibn Barakāt al-Saʿīdī, Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Farrāʾ, the jurist Sulṭān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maqdisī, al-Khafra bint Fātik, and others.

Abu ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Khaṭṭāb al-Rāzī and Abu al-Ḥasan ibn al-Farrāʾ granted him written authorization. He also studied under al-Rāzī and al-Silafī. In turn he transmitted ḥadith, his name became famous, and students travelled to him from afar.

Among the ḥuffāẓ who narrated from him were ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn Khalīl, Abu al-Ḥasan al-Sakhāwī, Abu Sulaymān ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ, the preacher of Mardā, Abu Bakr ibn Makārim, Abu ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥājib, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAzzūn, Ismāʿīl ibn Ṣārim, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAllāq, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Banīn, and many others.

He bestowed an ijāzah upon our shaykh Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr—in fact, he authorized anyone who met him during his lifetime. This was recorded by the muhaddith Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Ṣiqillī, citing what he had read in the handwriting of the muhaddith Aḥmad ibn al-Jawharī.

Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ said: “His hearing had become impaired; he heard better with his left ear, and he was rather irascible. I witnessed him, while our shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghanī was reading to him from al-Bukhārī the ḥadith, ‘There is no god but Allah alone, with no partner (1),’ and he remarked, ‘It does not contain the phrase, “He gives life and causes death.”’”