and he followed the jurisprudence of Aḥmad, kept company with Makkī ibn al-Gharrād, and, through his instruction, heard hadith.

He (Ibn al-Najjār) also said: “He was devout and upright, kept himself away from people, worshipped abundantly, and was of dignified bearing. He was buried in the Bāb Ḥarb cemetery.”

In that same year there died: the scholar Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Maqdisī, known as al-Bukhārī; the muhaddith Rafīʿ al-Dīn Isḥāq, father of the Abarqūhī; the god-fearing grammarian Khazʿal ibn ʿAskar in Damascus; Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Ustādh; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-ʿIzz ibn al-Khabbāzah al-Baghdādī; the Shāfiʿī shaykh, Imām al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Rāfiʿī; Shibl al-Dawla Kāfūr, founder of the Shiblī endowment; al-Ẓāhir bi-Amr Allāh; Ibn Abī Luqmah; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Khalīfah al-Ḥarbī; Abū al-Maḥāsin al-Marātibī; al-Mubārak ibn Abī al-Jūd; and (1) the judge of Damascus, Jamāl Yūnus ibn Badrān al-Shaybī al-Miṣrī.

176 – Ibn Abī Luqmah, Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid al-Anṣārī *

The shaykh, authoritative transmitter, long-lived righteous man, and one of the last of the early generations: Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid ibn Fāris ibn Saʿd ibn Ḥamzah ibn Abī Luqmah al-Anṣārī, the Damascene, known as al-Ṣaffār and al-Naḥḥās (the coppersmith).

He was born in Shaʿbān, 529 AH.

He began hearing hadith in 534 AH and thereafter from: the jurist Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Maṣīṣī, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs the Qurʾān-reciter, and the judge al-Muntajab Abū—