al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣaṣrā; the lord of Homs, Shīrkūh; the judge ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Rashīd al-Hamadhānī; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ṭufayl; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Dulaf, Qurʾān reciter and copyist; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥarrānī of Ḥamā; Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Karīm, the secretary (1); the ḥadīth master Ibn al-Dubaythī; Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān al-Sulamī; Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Maʿālī ibn Ṣābir; al-Rashīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Hādī, market-inspector of Damascus; and al-Ṣāḥib Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Naṣr Allah ibn al-Athīr.
36 – al-Ḥaṣīrī, Abū al-Maḥāmid Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Sayyid*—the shaykh, the imām, the erudite scholar, leader of the Ḥanafīs, Jamāl al-Dīn; Abū al-Maḥāmid Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Sayyid al-Bukhārī, known as al-Ḥaṣīrī, also called al-Tājirī, the Ḥanafī. He was born in 546 AH.
(1) He is Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ibrahim, the man of letters and scholar Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Ibn al-Karim al-Baghdadi, noted as a copyist, land-surveyor, mathematician, and hadith specialist. (Tarikh al-Islam, folio 193).
(*) Principal biographical sources: Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, Mirat al-zaman 2/720–721; al-Mundhiri, Takmilat Wafayat al-naqala, vol. 3, no. 2850; Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, p. 161; Mansur ibn Salim, Dhayl Mushtabih al-asma, fols. 16–17; Ibn al-Sabuni, Takmilat Ikmal al-ikmal, pp. 127–129; al-Dhahabi, Duwal al-Islam 2/107 (who calls him al-Hassari) and al-Ibar 5/152; Tarikh al-Islam, folio 184; al-Fayyumi, Nathr al-juman, vol. 2, fols. 102–103; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya 13/152–153; al-Qurashi, al-Jawahir al-mudiyya 2/155; Ibn Duqmaq, Nuzhat al-anam, fol. 36; al-Fasi, Dhayl al-taqiyid, fol. 251; al-Ayni, Aqd al-juman, vol. 18, fols. 219–220; al-Suyuti, al-Nujum al-zahira 6/313; Ibn Qutlubugha, Taj al-tarajim, p. 69; the work entitled Tabaqat al-fuqaha attributed to Tashkubri Zada (actually by Ibn al-Hanai), p. 107; al-Tamimi, al-Tabaqat al-saniyya, vol. 3, fols. 773–809 (with an unusually long entry); Ibn Abd al-Hadi, Shadharat al-dhahab 5/182; al-Zayla‘i, Tabaqat, fol. 31; al-Kashmiri, al-Fawaid al-bahiyya, p. 205, which dates his death to 637 AH.