And among his further descendants:
227 – Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Humām al-ʿAsqalānī *
A distinguished imam, Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī is the author of the book Silāḥ al-Muʾmin fī al-Duʿāʾ (The Believer’s Armor of Supplication). Now in the prime of his life, he leads—just as his father did—the prayers in the aforementioned congregational mosque. He related hadith from al-Abarqūhī and others, and he is still living (1).
228 – al-Māzinī, Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Musallam ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī *
The shaykh, senior musnid, and long-lived scholar Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Musallam ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Māzinī—originally from Naṣībīn and later a Damascene—was known in his day as “Khaṭīb al-Katān.” He was born in 538 AH (2).
He received hadith from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Dārānī, al-Ṣāʾin Hibat Allāh, and that scholar’s brother, the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim. At the frontier he also studied under Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, as reported.
Among those who narrated from him are al-Barzālī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Qūṣī, Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Nābulusī, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Ṣābūnī, Abū al-Faḍl ibn ʿAsākir, al-Khaḍir ibn ʿAbdān, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Dhahabī, Fāṭimah bint Sulaymān, and Shaykh ʿAlī ibn—