258 – Ibn Yunus, Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Yunus al-Irbili*
The leading Shafiʿi shaykh, ʿImad al-Din, Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Yunus ibn Muhammad ibn Manʿah, originally from Irbil and later associated with Mosul.

He studied Shafiʿi jurisprudence under his father and, in Baghdad, under Abu al-Mahasin ibn Bundar and a number of other scholars. He transmitted hadith, his fame spread, he authored works, and crowds of students graduated under him. Among his writings was al-Muḥīṭ and several other books. He was pious, upright, austere, and extremely prone to scrupulous misgivings.

He died in Jumada al-Akhira, 608 AH, at the age of seventy-three.

259 – al-Asbahani, Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman**
An erudite, versatile imam and preacher, Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman, Majd al-Din—of Moroccan stock, born in Damascus, and known as “al-Asbahani” because he resided in Isfahan for five years. He studied Shafiʿi jurisprudence, comparative law, dialectics, Sufism, and legal theory.

He heard hadith from Abu Bakr ibn Mashādha, Abu Rushd ibn Khalid, and al-Silafi. Later he moved to al-Andalus and settled in Granada.