235 – al-Raḍī al-Jīlī, Sulaymān ibn Muẓaffar ibn Ghanāʾim
The Imām, erudite master, Raḍī al-Dīn Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn Muẓaffar ibn Ghanāʾim al-Jīlī, a Shāfiʿī jurist who resided in Baghdad.
He completed his legal training at the Niẓāmiyya, then taught, issued formal legal opinions, wrote scholarly works, and excelled in the school’s doctrine and its finer points; many students graduated under his direction. He was nominated to head the Great Ribāṭ but declined, preferring to keep to his house and devote himself to his own affairs.
It is also reported that he was offered a judgeship and refused it.
Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn Ibn Khallikān (1) said: “He was among the leading scholars of his time. In jurisprudence he composed a work that fills fifteen volumes. High offices were offered to him, yet he would not accept them. He was a devout man and lived past the age of sixty.”
He passed away on the second day of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 631 AH (may Allah have mercy on him).
236 – Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Amīnī
The outstanding hadith scholar and benefactor of students, ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Amīnī,