I add: he was deeply versed in the school, the areas of juristic disagreement, and the principles of jurisprudence, and he was a man of devotion.

Those who transmitted from him were Ibn al-Najjar (1), ʿAlī ibn al-Akhdar, and al-Jamāl Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣayrafī. They heard from him the “Section of ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb,” in the recension of al-ʿAbbādānī by way of al-ʿAbbādānī’s audition from Aḥmad ibn Saʿd, who said: “The Imām Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī informed us; Abū ʿAlī Ibn Shādhān informed us.”

He also delivered the Friday sermon in certain districts of Hamadhān.

He died in Shaʿbān (2), 622 AH.

172 – Ibn Shukr, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Shaybī *

The eminent minister, Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Shaybī, al-Damīrī, the Mālikī, known as Ibn Shukr.

Born: 548 AH (3).

He studied jurisprudence and, while in the coastal garrison, heard a small number of traditions from al-Salafī, Ibn ʿAwf, and others. He continued his legal training under Makhlūf ibn Jārah.

Among those who narrated from him were al-Mundhirī and al-Qūṣī, both of whom praised his righteousness, generosity, and concern for scholars and the pious.

In Cairo he founded a madrasa, served as vizier, and attained great prominence. Later al-ʿĀdil became displeased with him and exiled him, so he stayed in Āmid. When al-ʿĀdil died, al-Kāmil recalled him.