He auditioned the collection al-Muntaqā, which comprises seven fascicles of the material transmitted by al-Mukhlis, and he also heard from ʿUmar ibn Bunaymān.

Those who narrated from him include ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Fārūthī, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Sharīshī, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Ibn Balbān, Abū Saʿīd al-Qaḍāʾī, and others.

By way of ijāzah he likewise authorised the Hanbalī judge, al-Muṭaʿim, Ibn Saʿd, Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Shīrāzī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Ibn al-Shiḥnah, and a number of others.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “There is nothing objectionable about him.”

Ibn al-Ḥājib remarked: “He was reputed for cunning and for frequent wrongdoing in judicial matters.”

I (the author) say: He died on the seventeenth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 636 AH (1).

30 – Ibn al-Ṭufayl, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Yūsuf ibn Hibat Allāh al-Dimashqī*

The shaykh, trustworthy transmitter, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥīm—the son of the hadith scholar Yūsuf ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Maḥmūd ibn al-Ṭufayl al-Dimashqī, later resident of Egypt—was known as Ibn al-Mukabbis the Sufi.

He received hadith in Damascus in the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, in the year 560 AH (2), from