He was born in al-Dawlaʿiyya, a village in the environs of Mosul, and later travelled to Damascus, where he studied jurisprudence under his uncle—the preacher of Damascus, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn.
He transmitted hadith from Ibn Ṣadaqa al-Ḥarrānī and from others as well. After his uncle’s death he held the pulpit for a time.
Among those who narrated from him were Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyya, Jamāl ibn al-Ṣābūnī, and his servant Sulaymān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan. He also lectured for a period at the Ghazāliyya Madrasa. He was eloquent, dignified, and severe toward the Rāfiḍa.
Abū Shāma said (1): “Al-Muʿaẓẓam prevented him from issuing fatwas for a time, and he never performed the pilgrimage because of his attachment to office. He died in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 634 AH (2), at the age of seventy-nine, whereupon the pulpit was handed to an ignorant brother of his.”
I (the author) say: His brother did not last long. Al-Dawlaʿī was buried at Jīrūn in the madrasa he had founded, and he was one of the distinguished Shāfiʿīs.

18 – Ibn al-Baghdādī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Miṣrī *
The imam, the muftī, Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, known as Ibn al-Baghdādī al-Miṣrī, a Shāfiʿī.