the Qur’ānic readings and in Arabic.

Shaykh Raḍī al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghānī, Najīb al-Dīn al-Miqdād ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Qaysī, and a number of others also reported from him.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He was a ḥāfiẓ, a decisive authority, a man of rank, overflowing with knowledge, with an immense store of memorised material; one of the luminaries of the religion and the leading imams of the Muslims, given to abundant worship, night-vigil, and fasting.”

Ibn Masdī said: “He was among the firmly established imams, famed for his memorisation and precision. He set out for Yemen and died at al-Mahjam in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 619 AH. He composed fine ascetic poetry as well.”

His son, Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (1), lived on until Ramadan 688 AH. Among those who received narrations from him were scholars from Egypt, al-Barzalī by way of Abū Rūḥ’s authorisation, and al-Muʾayyad. He used to relate that he had heard many works from his father—some said nearly a hundred (2).

112 – Ibn Qudāmah, ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī*
The shaykh, the imam, the exemplar, the eminent scholar, the mujtahid, Shaykh al-Islām, Muwaffaq al-Dīn, Abū