Volume Twenty-Two
1 – Shaykh Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī*
He was the Imām, erudite scholar, jurist, Qurʾān reciter, ḥadith specialist, a source of blessing, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah ibn Miqdām ibn Naṣr al-Maqdisī, al-Jammāʿīlī, the Ḥanbalī, an ascetic, and the endower of the Madrasa.
Birth: 528 AH, in the village of Jammāʿīl in the Nablus district. He, his father, his brother, and their kinsfolk then migrated to Damascus for the sake of Allah, abandoning their property and homeland after the Franks seized the region. They lived for three years in the Mosque of Abū Ṣāliḥ outside Bāb Sharqī (the Eastern Gate), after which they moved up the slope of Mount Qāsiyūn and built the Blessed Monastery (al-Dayr al-Mubārak).