In that same year, the following also passed away: Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Ghālib ibn al-Simidhī; Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Bakrūn, the imam of the Niẓāmiyya; Qāḍī Sharaf al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mawṣilī al-Shaybānī al-Ḥanafī in Damascus; the jurist Ziyāda ibn ʿImrān al-Miṣrī, who was blind; ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Shujāʿ al-Maḥallī; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭabarī; the Qur’an reciter of al-Thaghr, Abū al-Qāsim ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿĪsā; and others.
195 – Al-Muwaffaq ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Mawṣilī
The shaykh, the imam, the erudite scholar, jurist, grammarian, linguist, physician, and polymath; Muwaffaq al-Dīn, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, son of the jurist Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Saʿd al-Mawṣilī—later al-Baghdādī—a Shāfiʿī who settled in Aleppo and was formerly known as Ibn al-Labbād.
Birth: He was born in Baghdad during one of the two months of Rabīʿ in 557 AH.
His father arranged for him to hear ḥadith from Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Baṭṭī, Abū Zurʿa al-Maqdisī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Baṭalyawsī, Yaḥyā ibn Thābit, Shuhda al-Kātiba, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, Abū Bakr ibn al-Naqūr, and a number of others.