Those who narrated from him include: al-Diyāʾ, Ibn Khalīl, al-Barzalī, al-Dubaythī, al-Mundhirī, al-Najīb, al-Fakhr ʿAlī, and others besides.

He passed away in Ḥamāh, in Muḥarram (1) of the year 604 AH, at the age of seventy-seven.

238 – Abū al-Jūd Ghiyāth ibn Fāris ibn Makkī al-Lakhmī *

The Imām, the critical scholar, Shaykh of the Qur’an reciters: Abū al-Jūd Ghiyāth ibn Fāris ibn Makkī al-Lakhmī, known as al-Mundhirī, the Egyptian, specialist in inheritance law, grammar, and prosody, and who was blind.

He was born in 518 AH.

He studied the various modes of recitation with the noble preacher Abū al-Futūḥ al-Zaydī (2), from whom he also heard hadith, as he did from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rifāʿah.

He likewise read under al-Yasaʿ ibn Ḥazm al-Ghāfiqī according to the method set out in al-Taysīr (3), whose chain runs through his father and others back to Abū Dāwūd ibn Najāḥ.

For many years he occupied the teaching chair for Qur’an recitation, and his pupils spread far and wide. Among them were Shaykh ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī, ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir ibn Nashwān, the jurist Ziyādah (4), Abū ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥājib, and al-Muntajab al-Hamadhānī,