His brother was the judge Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn ʿUthmān (1) ibn ʿĪsā, one of the foremost authorities of the Shāfiʿī school. He served as deputy judge in Cairo. He pursued legal studies in Irbil under al-Khaḍir ibn ʿAqīl, and in Damascus under Ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn. Gifted in both uṣūl and practical law, he produced a thorough commentary on al-Muhadhdhab (2) in twenty volumes, though the section from the Book of Testimonies to the end remained unfinished (3). He also wrote a commentary on al-Lumaʿ (4), issued legal rulings, and taught.
He died in Dhu al-Qaʿdah (5), 602 AH. He was the father of the itinerant ḥadith scholar Ibrāhīm (6) ibn ʿUthmān ibn Dirbās.
240 – Al-Jilyānī, Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh*
The erudite scholar, physician, ascetic, Ṣūfī, and man of letters, Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Munʿim
(1) Biographical notices of al-Mundhiri appear in: al-Takmila, vol. 2, no. 935; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, 3/242-243; al-Isnawi, Tabaqat, fol. 24; al-Subki, 8/337-338; Ibn al-Furat, Tarikh, 9/fol. 19; al-Suyuti, Husn al-Muhadara, 1/408; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat, 5/7; and other works. The author himself provides a notice in Tarikh al-Islam, 18/1, pp. 110-111.
(2) A work by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (d. 476/1083).
(3) He entitled it al-Istiqsa li-Madhahib al-Fuqaha (An Exhaustive Survey of the Jurists’ Schools); this is reported by Ibn Khallikan and others.
(4) Also by al-Shirazi; the commentary fills two volumes.
(5) Cited in the twelfth volume of the same work.
(6) He died in 622/1225-26.
(*) Further sources: Ibn Abi Usaybiʿa, ʿUyun al-Anba, 3/259-265; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 18/1, pp. 134-135, 419; Ibn Shakir, Fawat al-Wafayat, 2/35-37; al-Maqri, Nafh al-Tib, 2/654; and Zirikli, Aʿlam, which offers a detailed entry. Al-Dhahabi lists him under the deaths of 603/1206 in Tarikh al-Islam and repeats the entry in the “approximate deaths” section without comment. This date derives from Muhibb al-Din Ibn al-Najjar, as al-Dhahabi himself notes, yet he still follows Ibn al-Abar, who had expressed uncertainty: “I was told he died in 603 or thereabout.” It seems al-Dhahabi ultimately relied on al-Shihab al-Qawsi, who states that the scholar died in Damascus in Dhu al-Hijja 603/July 1207. ʿImad al-Din also includes him in the Syrian section of al-Kharida.