he transmitted a vast number of reports, and he authored a work on the transmitters of the Five Books: Kh M D T S (1).
He was a fine stylist, an eloquent preacher and orator, a poet and grammarian. He occupied the teaching chair for the Qur’an readings and for Arabic, tutored the sons of al-Manṣūr in Marrakesh, won distinction and ample worldly means, held the judgeship of Córdoba and other posts, and was praised.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 612 AH.
30 – al-ʿIzz, son of the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Jammāʿīlī *
The imam, scholar, authoritative ḥāfiẓ who imparted benefit, the great traveler, ʿIzz al-Dīn, Abū al-Fath Muḥammad, son of the great ḥāfiẓ Taqī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī ibn Surūr al-Jammāʿīlī, al-Maqdisī, later al-Dimashqī, al-Ṣāliḥī, the Ḥanbalī.
Birth: at Dayr al-Ṣāliḥī in 566 AH, in one of the two Rabīʿ months.
He set out on his travels in 580 AH and heard hadith from Abū al-Fath ibn Shātil, Naṣr Allāh al-Qazzāz, and those who came after them.
He studied jurisprudence under Nāṣiḥ al-Islām ibn al-Manī.
In Damascus he heard from Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Ṣābir, Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr, and al-Khaḍir ibn Ṭāwūs,