Ibn al-Najjār said: “I copied in my own hand his transmission of the Sunan Ibn Mājah. He was a truthful, eminent man, and he studied fiqh under Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Manī.”

I say: He died suddenly on the nineteenth of Ramaḍān in the year 630 AH.

219 – Ibn al-Jawzī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī al-Bakrī*

The virtuous shaykh and hadith transmitter, Badr al-Dīn, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī, son of the shaykh, the Imām, Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Jawzī al-Bakrī, a Baghdadi known for copying books.

He was born in Ramaḍān, 551 AH.

He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Baṭṭī, Yaḥyā ibn Thābit, Abū Zurʿah, Aḥmad ibn al-Muqarrab, the vizier Ibn Hubayra, and Shuhdah.

He preached for a time and then gave it up. He was full of anecdotes and had a pleasant sense of humor. He spent a period in idleness and low company, after which he devoted himself to copying books, though his handwriting was poor. He was self-restrained, served himself, lived off an allowance from his father, and would occasionally misappropriate (1) some of his father’s books.

Those who narrated from him include: al-Sayf, al-ʿIzz ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the ḥadith master (2), and al-Taqī ibn—