and escaped, though only by the narrowest margin.

He then proceeded to Shiraz, where he remained until 637 AH, as al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī has recorded (1).

Those who were granted an ijāza by him include the judge Taqī al-Dīn Sulaymān and a number of others. He was the last man to transmit in person from Abū al-Waqt, yet, for all that, I cannot recall anyone who actually heard from him.

Perhaps some people of Shiraz—if they were diligent in preserving his transmissions—lived on after him; for Shiraz is the principal city of that province. It is thriving, the Mongol unbelievers never reached it, and it remains secure to this day. The city itself is comparatively new, founded by the emir Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Thaqafī, a cousin of al-Ḥajjāj. It was called Shiraz in likening it to a lion’s belly, because merchants constantly bring goods into it and carry goods out, and nothing equals it. Within the town are springs situated inside private houses. From Shiraz to Isfahan is a journey of seven days, and its inhabitants are beyond counting. The city is under the authority of the ruler of Iraq, Abū Saʿīd. Its latitude is 29°, its longitude 79°. It lies due east of Egypt, Wādī Mūsā, and Tabūk, all of them on the same line.

42 – Sālim, the son of the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Mawāhib al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allah al-Taghlibī*

son of Maḥfūẓ ibn Ṣaṣrā; the upright shaykh, the leading notable, Amīn al-Dīn, Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Taghlibī, a Damascene Shāfiʿī.

His father took him on his travels when he was five years old, and had him audition ḥadith from Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Shātil and Abū