and al-Nasa’i (1) likewise transmitted it through ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Halabi—both of them narrating from ʿUbayd Allah (2)—as a report traced back to the Prophet.
127 – Ibn ʿAsakir ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Dimashqi
The shaykh, imam, scholar, exemplar, mufti, and head of the Shafiʿis, Fakhr al-Din, Abu Mansur ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Hibat Allah ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Dimashqi, the Shafiʿi.
He was born in 550 AH.
He heard hadith from his two uncles—al-Sa’in and al-Hafiz—as well as from ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Darani, Hassan ibn Tamim, Abu al-Makarim ibn Hilal, Dawud ibn Muhammad al-Khalidi, Muhammad ibn Asʿad al-ʿIraqi, Ibn Sabir, and several others.
He studied jurisprudence under al-Qutb al-Naysaburi, married his daughter, and she bore him a son whom he named Masʿud; the boy died while still a young man.
He taught at the Jarukhiyya, then at the Salahiyya in Jerusalem, and at the Taqawiyya in Damascus. He would reside in Jerusalem for a number of months and in Damascus for a number of months, and at the Taqawiyya he gathered around him the notable scholars of the city,