Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Malik, son of ʿĪsā ibn Dirbās ibn Fīr ibn Jahm ibn ʿAbdūs al-Mārānī, a Kurdish adherent of the Shāfiʿī school.
He was born in the districts of Mosul, around the year 516 AH.
The Banū Mārān live in the area of al-Marūj, situated below Mosul.
He travelled in pursuit of jurisprudence. In Aleppo he studied under Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Murādī and received hadith from him.
In Damascus he heard hadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Bunn al-Asadī and from the ḥadith master Ibn ʿAsākir.
In Egypt he studied with ʿAlī ibn Bint Abī Saʿd (1), and al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Mufaḍḍal (2) compiled for him a collection of forty hadith.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Zakī al-Dīn al-Mundhirī narrated from him and said (3): “He was famed for piety, for participating in jihād, and for seeking knowledge; people sought blessing from his relics for the sick.”
I (the author) say: he was among the eminent and distinguished scholars, and within his relatives and descendants were many virtuous men and transmitters of hadith.
He passed away—may Allah have mercy on him—on the fifth of Rajab in 605 AH, having lived into his nineties.