He recited the various Qur’an transmissions before Abū al-Karam al-Shahrazūrī and ʿUmar al-Ḥarbī. He also heard hadith from Abū al-Faḍl al-Urmawī, Abū Saʿd ibn al-Baghdādī, and Ibn Nāṣir, and he served as prayer-leader in the Fāʿūs Mosque. Among those who completed the ten canonical readings with him were ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Abī al-Jaysh and others. Al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī and al-Najīb al-Ḥarrānī transmitted from him.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He was truthful, virtuous, pious, of upright conduct and fine manners. He told me, ‘I was born in 530 AH,’ and he died in Shawwāl, 616 AH.”

66 – Ibn Sayyidihim, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī

The shaykh, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyidihim ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Sarāyā al-Anṣārī, a Damascene, known as al-Wakīl (“the agent”), al-Jābī (“the collector”), and Ibn al-Farrāsh (1).

He heard from Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Maṣṣīṣī and Naṣr ibn Muqātil.

Those who narrated from him include al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Zakī al-Mundhirī, al-Taqī al-Yaldānī, Ibn Abī ʿUmar, and Ibn al-Bukhārī.

He also granted an authorization (ijāzah) to our shaykh ʿUmar ibn al-Qawwās, and he was among the last of the senior scholars.