and its Friday preacher and public admonisher, Fakhr al-Din, Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Khidr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Khidr ibn ʿAli ibn ʿAbd Allah Ibn Taymiyyah al-Harrani, a Hanbali, author of the Diwan al-Khutab (Collection of Sermons) and the Great Tafsir.

He was born in Shaʿban of the year 542 AH in Harran.

He studied jurisprudence under Ahmad ibn Abi al-Wafa and Hamid ibn Abi al-Hajar; later, in Baghdad, he learned from Nasih al-Islam Ibn al-Manni and Ahmad ibn Bakrus, excelling in the Hanbali school and becoming one of its leading authorities.

He studied Arabic with Abu Muhammad Ibn al-Khasshab, and he heard hadith from Abu al-Fath Ibn al-Batti, Yahya ibn Thabit, Abu Bakr ibn al-Naqqur, Saʿd Allah Ibn al-Dajjaji, Jaʿfar Ibn al-Damaghani, Shahdah, and others.

He compiled an abridgement of Hanbali jurisprudence, and he composed both poetry and prose.

It is said that his grandfather made the pilgrimage by way of Taymaʾ; there he saw a little girl, and when he returned he found that his wife had given birth to a daughter. He cried out, “O Taymiyyah! O Taymiyyah!” and the family acquired the nickname from that incident.

Ibn al-Najjar, however, relates that their grandfather Muhammad’s mother was named Taymiyyah and that she was a public preacher.

Yes, Shaykh Fakhr al-Din also received hadith in Harran from Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi when the latter visited them.