Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, grandson of Shaykh Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Bunn al-Asadī, a Damascene known in the timber trade.
He was born around the year 37 (i.e., 537 AH).
He heard a large body of hadith from his grandfather, became the sole transmitter of many reports, lived to an advanced age, and received his training in refined conduct from Emir Maḥmūd ibn Niʿmah al-Shīzarī, whose company he kept. He possessed autograph manuscripts and separate fascicles.
Ibn al-Ḥājib said: “He was habitually silent; when he recoiled from something he never returned to it. He was trustworthy and firmly grounded. I asked al-ʿAdl ʿAlī ibn al-Shayrajī about him and he replied, ‘He was upright, lavish in charity and beneficence.’”
Al-Ḍiyāʾ remarked: “A fine shaykh, described as righteous, sparing in speech and idle talk.”
Ibn al-Ḥājib also noted: “He received authorisation from Naṣr ibn Naṣr al-ʿUkbarī and from Abū Bakr ibn al-Zāghūnī.”
He died on the eighteenth (1) of Shaʿbān in the year 625 AH and was buried in the Bāb al-Farādīs cemetery.
I add: Among those who narrated from him were al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Barzalī, Ibn Khalīl, al-Sharaf Ibn al-Nābulusī, al-Jamāl Ibn al-Ṣābūnī, Muḥammad ibn Ilyās, Muḥammad ibn Sālim al-Nābulusī, al-ʿIzz Ibn al-Farrāʾ, al-Shams Ibn al-Kamāl, al-Shihāb al-Abarqūhī, Saʿd al-Khayr, his brother Naṣr, al-Fakhr ʿAlī, the two sons of al-Wāsiṭī, al-Khiḍr ibn ʿAbdān, and several others.