from this world, and he belonged to a family renowned for hadith, honesty, and scrupulous self-restraint.
His brother was himself a hadith scholar, and I read to him al-Ḥākim’s “ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth” on two occasions. He was well-to-do, possessing wealth and real estate, though he suffered financial losses more than once.
Ibn al-Ḥājib also said: “He was versed in uṣūl, gentle in manner, dignified in appearance, easy to deal with, diligent in observing the prayer times, and avoided excessive socialising. His lineage went back to Rabīʿa al-Faras.”
He died on the twenty-third of Muḥarram in 626 AH. The preacher al-Khaṭīb al-Dawlaʿī led the funeral prayer for him in the Great Mosque; Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn al-Khuʾī led another outside the city; and Taj al-Qurṭubī performed the prayer at his grave at the foot of Mount Qāsyūn.
In that same year there also passed away: the Egyptian traditionist ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAtīq ibn Wardān al-ʿĀmirī; Sharaf al-Nisāʾ, daughter of Aḥmad ibn al-Ābunūsī; the noble al-Bahāʾ al-Faḍl ibn ʿAqīl al-ʿAbbāsī; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥarb al-Narsī; Abū Naṣr al-Muhadhdhab ibn ʿAlī ibn Qunaydah (1) al-Azajī; Shihāb Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī al-Rūmī, the well-known author; Abū al-Baqāʾ Yaʿīsh ibn ʿAlī ibn Yaʿīsh ibn al-Qadīm al-Shilbī; and the ruler of Yemen, King al-Masʿūd Aqsīs ibn al-Kāmil.

163 – Zayn al-Umanaʾ al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAsākir al-Dimashqī
The shaykh, the eminent scholar, the musnid, the devout and righteous, Zayn al-Umanaʾ, Abū al-Barakāt