His father was:
167 – Shaykh Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn*
One of the senior Shāfiʿī scholars. He studied jurisprudence in Irbil under al-Khaḍr ibn ʿAqīl and in Damascus under Ibn Abī ʿAsrūn. He produced a twenty-volume commentary on al-Muhadhdhab and a two-volume commentary on al-Lumaʿ in legal theory, and he acted as his brother’s deputy in the judiciary. He died in 602 AH.
His uncle:
168 – Abu al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Malik, Ṣadr al-Dīn**
Chief judge of the Egyptian territories, Ṣadr al-Dīn Abu al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Malik was born in the region of Mosul in 516 AH. He studied jurisprudence in Aleppo under Abu al-Ḥasan al-Murādī and heard ḥadīth in Damascus from Abu al-Qāsim ibn al-Bunn and in Egypt from ʿAlī ibn Bint Abī Saʿd al-Zāhid. Righteous and upright, he was counted among the finest of judges. He passed away in 605 AH.
169 – Ibn al-Narsī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥarb***
Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥarb ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn
(*) Al-Mundhiri, Takmila, vol. 2, biog. no. 935; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-A‘yan, 3/242–243; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 137 (Paris 1582); al-Isnawi, Tabaqat, fol. 24; al-Subki, Tabaqat, 5/143; Ibn al-Furat, Tarikh, 9/fol. 19; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 5/7, where the nisba “al-Marani” is erroneously written “al-Harani”.
(1) According to al-Mundhiri’s Takmila and other sources, he died on 12 Dhu al-Qi‘da of the mentioned year.
(* *) Al-Mundhiri, Takmila, vol. 2, biog. no. 1062; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 148 (Paris 1582); al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, 5/13; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 13/52; Ibn al-Mulqin, al-‘Iqd al-Mudhhab, fol. 165; al-Maqrizi, al-Suluk, 1/1/170; Ibn Hajar, Raf‘ al-Isr, fol. 75 (Paris 2149); al-Ayni, ‘Uqd al-Juman, 17/fols. 316–317; al-Nuwayri, al-Nujum al-Zahira, 6/196; Ibn al-Furat, Tarikh, 9/fol. 33; al-Suyuti, Husn al-Muhadara, 1/190.
(2) He passed away on the night of 5 Rajab of that same year.
(* * *) Ibn al-Dubaythi, Tarikh, fols. 133–134 (Shahid ‘Ali collection); Ibn al-Shi‘ar, ‘Uqud al-Juman, …