— How many a servant—though he had wronged his own soul and was on the verge of despair—placed his hope in Him and thereby attained his goal.
— And whoever keeps long company with the passing of Time will, with it, meet ordeals and vexations.

33 – al-ʿImād Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Maqdisī
The shaykh, imam, scholar, ascetic, exemplar, jurist, and “blessing of his age,” ʿImād al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq (1) Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī ibn Surūr al-Maqdisī, al-Jammāʿīlī, who resided at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn and was the brother of the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-Ghanī.

He was born in Jammāʿīl in the year (2) 543 AH, and his family emigrated with him in 551 AH, when he was eight years old.

Among those from whom he heard were Abū al-Makārim ibn Hilāl, Salmān ibn ʿAlī al-Raḥabī, and Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Ṣābir.

He then journeyed on and heard (3) from Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Rakhla, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Khushshāb, Shahda, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, and several others; and in Mosul he received narration from Abū al-Faḍl al-Khaṭīb.

In Baghdad he studied jurisprudence under Ibn al-Mannī and became well-versed in the school of Aḥmad.

Narrations from him were taken by al-Barzalī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn Khalīl, al-Mundhirī, and al-Qūṣī.