and from Ahmad ibn al-Dabaqī; and in Mosul, Irbil, Tikrit, and Harran. He eventually settled in Damascus, where he narrated prolifically, writing down the traditions of virtually everyone who crossed his path. For himself and for others he copied large amounts in a graceful Maghribi hand, produced hadith extracts for a number of teachers, led the prayer in Masjid Fulūs, and lived in its vicinity. He was naturally gifted, even-tempered, cheerful, generous in lending out his books, and remarkably forbearing.
He was appointed shaykh at the sanctuary of ʿUrwah, and he died in Hama in Ramadan of the year 636 AH, on the fourteenth of the month.⦗1⦘
Al-Mundhirī⦗2⦘ said: “He possessed an excellent memory and took part in fruitful scholarly discussion. He kept our company for a time in the circle of our shaykh Ibn al-Mufaḍḍal⦗3⦘. I heard from him, and he heard from me.”
I say: Those who transmitted from him include Jamāl Ibn al-Ṣābūnī⦗4⦘, ʿUmar ibn Yaʿqūb al-Irbilī, Majd al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿAdīm, Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn Wāṣil, Abū al-Faḍl Ibn ʿAsākir, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Dhahabī, Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Khallāl, and others.
Barzala is a tribe in al-Andalus.
The ḥāfiẓ ʿAlam al-Dīn composed a lengthy biography of him, noting that Ibn al-Anmāṭī borrowed his travel register and then claimed it had been lost, whereupon Zakī wept and grieved over it.
Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh informed us; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf the ḥāfiẓ informed us; she informed us