He studied jurisprudence in Transoxiana, and in Samarkand, Balkh, and the neighboring regions he received instruction from: the judge ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Maḥmūdī; Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Rashīd al-Walwālajī; the littérateur ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Karābīsī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Bishr al-Balkhī al-Naqqāsh; Imām Abū Shujāʿ al-Bisṭāmī; and a number of others.

He issued legal opinions, engaged in scholarly disputation, and wrote works. He lectured at the Ḥalāwiyyah madrasa and produced a commentary on al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr within the school.

Many leading scholars graduated under him. He was noble, generous, scrupulously pious, dignified, sound in audition, and possessed elevated chains of transmission.

A large company narrated from him, among them: Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ḥawrānī the ascetic, al-Barzālī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-ʿImād Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Ḥanafī, al-Muʾayyad Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Qifṭī, Abū al-Makārim Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-ʿAjamī, his brother Muḥammad, their cousin al-Quṭb Muḥammad, al-ʿAwn Sulaymān ibn al-ʿAjamī, the ḥadith scholar ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-ʿAjamī, al-Kamāl Aḥmad ibn al-Naṣībī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Awḥad al-Zubayrī, and several others.

He died in Aleppo, in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of 616 AH; the date was recorded by Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ.

I heard hadith from Zaynab al-Kindiyya under his general authorization.

73 – Ibn al-Jarrāḥ, Tāj al-Dīn Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr al-Miṣrī *

The man of letters and accomplished stylist, Tāj al-Dīn Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr Ibn al-Jarrāḥ al-Miṣrī, famed for his elegant handwriting and exquisite correspondence.