the early generations (salaf); he was foolish, exceedingly proud, foul-tongued, lax about his religion, and he used to dye his beard black.
Ibn al-Najjār in his History, Ibn al-ʿAdīm in the History of Aleppo, Abū Ṣādiq Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAṭṭār, and Ibn al-Mustawfī in his History all recorded from him matters that cast him down.
249 – al-Irbilī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muslim*
The shaykh, transmitter (musnid), Fakhr al-Dīn, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muslim ibn Salmān al-Irbilī, the Sufi.
Born: in the year 559 AH.
On another occasion he said: at the beginning of 560 AH.
He narrated from: Yaḥyā ibn Thābit, Abū Bakr ibn al-Naqqūr, Shuhda al-Kātiba, ʿAlī ibn ʿAsākir the Qurʾān-reciter, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Baṭalyawsī, Hibat Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Wakīl, Khamratāsh Fatā ibn Raʾīs al-Ruʾasāʾ, Tajannī ʿAtīqah ibn Wahbān, and others. From them he possesses a fascicle (juzʾ) that we have heard.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Ṣābūnī, Jamāl al-Dīnawarī the preacher, al-ʿImād Yūsuf ibn al-Shaqārī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Yūnīnī, and Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn—