Aḥmad ibn Ḥarīq al-Makhzūmī, the Valencian.
Al-Abbār (1) said: “He was Valencia’s pre-eminent poet, ocean-deep in belles-lettres and languages, a keeper of Arab poetry and its annals, and an outstanding master of verse. His collected poems fill two volumes.”
He died in Shaʿbān, 622 AH, at the age of seventy-one.
Ibn Masdī remarked: “When he composed poetry, he surpassed and amazed; when he wrote prose, he was concise and most eloquent. I have heard some of his writings.”
174 – The judge ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī *
Chief judge of the Egyptian provinces, Zayn al-Dīn, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bundār al-Dimashqī—later of Baghdad—transmitter of the Musnad of al-Shāfiʿī from Abū Zurʿah ibn Ṭāhir.
He studied jurisprudence under his father and became distinguished in the school. Those who narrated from him include the two Zakīs, al-Barzālī and al-Mundhirī, as well as his son Aḥmad. Al-Abarqūhī also reported from him.
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah (2), 622 AH.