al-Ḥanbalī; he also studied under Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir and Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ḥarbī.
He received hadith from Abū al-Faḍl al-Urmawī (1), Anūshtikīn al-Raḍwānī, and Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAbbāsī. In Damascus he heard from Naṣr ibn Muqātil and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn Ibn Qudāmah, Ibn Khalīl, al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Zakī al-Mundhirī, al-Shihāb al-Qūṣī, Ibn Abī ʿUmar (2), al-Fakhr Ibn al-Bukhārī, and many more.
For his sake, the notable Raʾīs Mismār built a school (3) and endowed it to him and to his descendants.
He was a fine poet, possessed wide-ranging knowledge, and enjoyed great prestige. He authored al-Nihāyah fī Sharḥ al-Hidāyah, in several volumes, al-Khulāṣah fī al-Madhhab, and other works. Among his children were scholars and dignitaries.
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah (4) of 606 AH, at the age of eighty-seven. He had previously served as qadi of Harrān during the reign of al-Malik Nūr al-Dīn.
His brother, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, died without offspring in 615 AH. Al-Fakhr Ibn al-Bukhārī transmitted from him, on the authority of Ibn Muqātil.