and ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Fārūthī, Ibn al-Dubaythī, and a number of others. By ijāza (written authorization) Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī also narrated from him.

He passed away on 6 Muḥarram 621 AH.

He composed an urjūza (didactic poem) on creed that is open to critique, and he was nicknamed al-Shīnātī, as someone versified about him:

Sharaf al-Dīn, our shaykh, a Shāfiʿī—
a poet, a witness, noble, and a master of legal conditions.

Among his writings are Lubāb al-Manqūl fī Faḍāʾil al-Rasūl, Faḍāʾil al-Ayyām wa-l-Shuhūr, Taʿbīr al-Ruʾyā, al-Nukhab fī al-Khuṭab, and other works.

I read to Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī, and he informed us that Abū Ṭālib ibn ʿAbd al-Samīʿ—by written permission, if not by direct audition—at Wāsiṭ, and Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad, through my reading to him (the ensuing wording is his), both said:

“Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad informed us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis informed us; ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghawī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿĀṣim narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Raqqī narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Karīm (1), from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:

‘There will come people who dye their hair jet-black like the crops of doves; they will not smell the fragrance of Paradise.’

With this same chain to al-Baghawī: Hāshim ibn al-Ḥārith narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allāh al-Raqqī narrated to us, and he reported it as marfūʿ—traced back to the Prophet ﷺ.

It was also recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2) through Abū Tawbah (3).