He was born in 553 AH. He studied jurisprudence in Damascus under al-Qutb al-Naysabūrī and in Egypt under al-Shihāb al-Ṭūsī. He taught in the Saddlers’ Mosque and at the Qutbiyya and was widely noted for his piety and for issuing legal opinions.
Among those who received traditions from him were Aḥmad ibn al-Aghlāqī and Ibn Masdī, while, by ijāza, Qāḍī Shihāb al-Dīn Ibn al-Khuwayyī and Aḥmad ibn al-Musallam ibn ʿAllān narrated from him. He himself transmitted ḥadith from Abū l-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir.
Al-Mundhirī says in his Muʿjam: “He was a fine jurist, devout and chaste, unpretentious, and devoted to matters that concerned him.” He died in Shaʿbān 634 AH.
19 – Ibn Dihya’s Brother, Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Jumayyil *
The linguist, erudite scholar, and ḥadith expert, Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Farḥ al-Jumayyil, al-Sabtī.
He heard (1) together with his brother Abū l-Khaṭṭāb mentioned above—and, on his own, many narrations—from Ibn Bashkuwāl, Abū Bakr ibn al-Jadd, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zarqūn, Abū Bakr ibn Khayr, and Abū l-Qāsim al-Suhaylī (though he declined to transmit from the latter and disparaged him), as well as from Abū Muḥammad ibn Būnah and ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Khalūf.
He performed the pilgrimage, stayed with his brother in Egypt, and then assumed office