In Arabic, the name Shirkuh means “mountain lion.” After his death, his son al-Manṣūr Ibrāhīm held the lordship of Homs for seven years.

28 – al-Ṣafrāwī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Ismāʿīl
The shaykh, imām, scholar, muftī, Qur’an reciter and master of tajwīd; the leading authority of Alexandria; Jamāl al-Dīn, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUthmān ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥafṣ al-Ṣafrāwī—so called after al-Ṣafrāʾ near Badr—al-Iskandarī, jurist, Mālikī, and shaykh of the Qur’an readers.

Birth: Alexandria, at the beginning of 544 AH.

He learned the various transmissions of Qur’an recitation from: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalaf Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAṭiyya al-Qurashī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ghāfiqī, Abū Yaḥyā al-Yasaʿ ibn Ḥazm, and Abū al-Ṭayyib ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Khalūf.

Excelling in the science of the readings, he wrote a work on the subject entitled al-Iʿlān (“The Proclamation”).

He studied jurisprudence under the erudite Abū Ṭālib Ṣāliḥ ibn Ismāʿīl, grandson of Bint Muʿāfā, and heard a large body of hadith from Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī, Abū al-Ṭāhir ibn ʿAwf, Abū Muḥammad al-ʿUthmānī, and others.

The people of the frontier (thaghr) pursued legal studies with him. He taught hadith in the frontier towns, in al-Manṣūrah, and in Egypt.

Among those who recited to him in the various transmissions was al-Rashīd