then, outside Bab al-Farādīs, the Ḥanafī shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥaṣīrī led the congregation; after that, on the Mountain, Muwaffaq al-Dīn, the Ḥanbalī shaykh, conducted another prayer. The crowds escorted the bier, he was laid to rest in a burial plot of his own, and condolences were received beneath the Nasr (1) for two days.
29 – Ibn Ḥawṭ Allāh, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Anṣārī
The ḥāfiẓ, the imam, the muhaddith of al-Andalus: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ibn Ḥawṭ Allāh al-Anṣārī, al-Ḥārithī, al-Andalusī, al-Undī, the brother of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Sulaymān.
Born: 549 AH.
He mastered the seven canonical readings under his father.
He heard from Ibn Hadhayl a portion of al-Ijāz (2) in the Warsh recitation.
He also took transmission from Abū al-Qāsim ibn Ḥubaysh (3), al-Suhaylī (4), Ibn al-Jadd (5), Ibn Zarqun (6), Ibn Bashkuwāl, and many others.
He was granted authorization by Abū al-Ṭāhir ibn ʿAwf of Alexandria and Abū Ṭāhir al-Khushūʿī of Damascus.