are you?” I replied, “From the Maghrib.” He began to weep and said, “May Allah never be pleased with Saladin; that man ruined the religion—he drove the caliphs out of Egypt…,” and he went on cursing him, so I rose and left.

He died in Shaʿbān ⦗1⦘, in the year 614 AH.

48 – al-Bandanījī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad *

The ḥāfiẓ, Muftī of Baghdad, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Karam al-Bandanījī, later al-Baghdādī, al-Azajī, al-Muʿaddal, the brother of the traditionist Tamīm.

He was born in 541 AH ⦗2⦘.

He heard hadith from Ibn al-Zāghūnī, Abū al-Waqt, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Mādiḥ, and many others.

He collected both higher-isnād and lower-isnād transmissions, yet was excessively prolific without due precision.

Among those who narrated from him were Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn al-Najjār, al-Zakī, al-Barzalī, al-Yaldānī, and others.

He had a particular interest in personal names, studied Arabic grammar, and was eloquent with a pleasant recitation. He was put to the test when he attested to a fraudulent document; he was slapped while mounted on a donkey and imprisoned for a period in 588 AH, after which his reputation declined.