and the Chief Judge, ʿImād al-Dīn Abū Ṣāliḥ, son of the ascetic ḥadīth master Abū Bakr, originally from Jīl, later of Baghdad, from the Azaj quarter, a Hanbalī. He was born in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 564 AH. When he was only one month old, Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn al-Baṭṭī, al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad al-Badrāʾī, and a number of others granted him licence.
He went on to receive ḥadīth from his two parents; ʿAlī ibn ʿAsākir al-Baṭāʾiḥī; Khadījah bt. al-Ẓāhirī; Abū al-Faḍl ibn ʿAsākir; ʿAlī ibn Baqāʾ the instructor; al-ʿImād ibn Saʿd; ʿAlī, ʿUmar and Abū Bakr—the sons of Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim; ʿUmar ibn Ṭarkhān; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Muʾmin; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Irbilī al-Dhahabī; ʿĪsā ibn Abī Muḥammad al-Maghārī; Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Dhikr al-Qurashī; Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khaṭīb al-Abbār; ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAsākir; and many others.
Among those of his teachers who were still alive in his day were ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muṭaʿʿim, al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir, and the judge Taqī al-Dīn Sulaymān.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sāmah (1) told me: “His nickname is Qanwar.” (2) I likewise read, in the hand of Ibn Masdī, that he was known as al-Qanwar. His exact date of birth, however, could not be firmly established, and for that reason people refused to accept from him licences attributed to authorities who had died long before. Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ said: “We do not accept these licences, because he cites matters that show he was born after their dates.” Our shaykh Ibn al-Ẓāhirī—who had been one of his companions—said: “He died in Irbil in Ramaḍān, or in Shawwāl, of the year 633 AH.” I also found in the handwriting of al-Sayf Ibn al-Majd: “I saw our colleagues and teachers speaking ill of him because of his weak religiosity and lack of decorum, although his auditions were sound.”

250 – Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Jīlī*—son of Shaykh al-Islām ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, the imām and peerless scholar,