hundred. His body remained in the mosque for the night of Tuesday; the next morning the people gathered and we buried him in al-Qarafa (1).

Al-Ḍiyāʾ said: “The Ḥāfiẓ married my maternal aunt Rābiʿah, the daughter of his maternal uncle Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah; she is the mother of his children Muḥammad, ʿAbd Allāh, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and Fāṭimah. Later, while in Egypt, he also took a concubine.”

I add: His children were scholars.

• Muḥammad was the hadith scholar, ḥāfiẓ, and widely-travelled imam ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ. He died in 613 AH while still of middle age and enjoyed great prestige.

• ʿAbd Allāh was the hadith scholar, ḥāfiẓ, and author Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Mūsā. He travelled in search of knowledge and heard hadith from Ibn Kulayb and Khalīl al-Rārānī. He too died in middle age, in Ramaḍān of 629 AH.

• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān was the jurist-mufti Abū Sulaymān, son of the Ḥāfiẓ. He heard hadith from al-Buṣayrī and Ibn al-Jawzī, lived a little over fifty years, and passed away in Ṣafar of 643 AH.

Dream-visions:

Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ recorded several dreams concerning him, among them:

I heard the trustworthy Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Maqdisī say, “It was as though I was in the Dayr Mosque (2), and inside were men dressed in white; it occurred to me that they were angels. Then in came …”