Al-Qūṣī said, “The Mufti of Syria, Sharaf al-Dīn, narrated to us in his Amīniyyah school.”
Abū Shāmah (1) added, “Since he was expelled from Damascus he has lived in Ḥimṣ. He lectured at the Amīniyyah and at the zāwiyah facing al-Barādah. He was deeply versed in the Shāfiʿī school (2) and in the areas of juristic disagreement, and was highly proficient.”
I say: He passed away in Jumādā al-Ākhirah (3) of the year 602 AH, in Ḥimṣ, away from his homeland.
220 – Muḥammad ibn Kāmil ibn Aḥmad ibn Asad al-Tanūkhī *
The shaykh, Abū al-Maḥāsin al-Tanūkhī, originally from Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān and later a Damascene, known as “the witness.”
Al-Fakhr Ibn al-Bukhārī heard from him the sixth fascicle of the Hināʾiyyāt during the fifth session, on the basis of his own audition in 531 AH from Ṭāhir ibn Sahl (4).
(1) Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, p. 54.
(2) That is, the legal school of Imam al-Shafi‘i.
(3) On the 9th of Jumada al-Akhira, as explicitly stated by Ibn al-Dubaythi, al-Mundhiri, al-Dhahabi in his other works, and others.
(*) Mashyakhat Ibn al-Bukhari, fol. 3 ff.; Tarikh al-Islam, 18/1, pp. 144–145; al-Ibar, 5/7.
(4) He appears as the second shaykh in Ibn al-Bukhari’s Mashyakha edited by Ibn al-Zahiri al-Hanafi, although he would deserve first place were it not that his father was given priority; this Muhammad is actually the earliest of Ibn al-Bukhari’s teachers to die. Ibn al-Bukhari writes in his Mashyakha: “Our informant was the reliable shaykh Abu al-Mahasin Muhammad b. Kamil b. Ahmad b. Asad al-Tanukhi al-Maʿarri, later al-Dimashqi, as read before our shaykh, the hadith-master Abu al-Fath Muhammad b. the hadith-master Abu Muhammad Abd al-Ghani b. Abd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi, while I was present, on the fifth day of Shaʿban in the year 600 AH. No one on earth now narrates from him except me. He in turn informed us Abu Muhammad Tahir b. Sahl…,” after which he cites from him a report contained in the Hanaiyyat collection.