He was born in 552 AH. He studied jurisprudence under the judge Sharaf al-Dīn Ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn and learned the craft of issuing legal opinions from al-Quṭb al-Naysābūrī. Among those from whom he heard ḥadīth were Aḥmad ibn Ḥamzah ibn al-Mawāzīnī, Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī, and others. He, in turn, had his son—the Chief Justice Ṣadr al-Dīn Aḥmad(1)—listen to portions of al-Khushūʿī. Dignified and imposing, he was an imam whose rulings were praised. He taught in greater Syria and in Mecca. Those who transmitted from him include Abū al-Faḍl Ibn ʿAsākir, his cousin al-Fakhr Ismāʿīl, and al-Bahāʾ the physician. He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 635 AH.
21 – Ibn al-Shawwāʾ, Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Ismāʿīl al-Kūfī*
The celebrated man of letters, the foremost poet of his age, Shihāb al-Dīn, Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Ismāʿīl al-Kūfī—later of Aleppo, a Shīʿī—left a large dīwān in four volumes. He passed away in Muḥarram, 635 AH, at the age of seventy-three.