al-Saʿādāt al-Qazzāz, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAqīl, Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Nabhan, Aḥmad ibn Durrak (1), the Shaykh of the Shaykhs ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ismāʿīl, and several others.

He also heard in Damascus from al-Faḍl ibn al-Bānyāsī, the emir Usāmah ibn Munqidh, ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Najjār, al-Khaḍir ibn Ṭāwūs, and a number of other scholars.

He memorised the Quran, studied jurisprudence, acquired some training in adab (literature), and became the sole authority for a considerable body of his narrations, despite not living to an advanced age.

Among those who transmitted from him were al-Birzālī (2), al-Qūṣī, al-Majd ibn al-Ḥulwāniyyah, Saʿd al-Khayr, Abū al-Faḍl ibn ʿAsākir, his cousin al-Fakhr, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Irbilī, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Khallāl, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim (3), and others besides.

Al-Qūṣī states in his Muʿjam: “The chief judge, the upright, Abū al-Ghanāʾim, informed us at his residence (4). He was delightful in companionship and social dealings, witty in conversation, courteous in dialogue. His conduct in the posts he held—supervising the maristans (hospitals) and matters of inheritance—was universally praised.”

I say: He lived sixty years and passed away in Jumada al-Ākhirah of the year 637 AH. He was buried in his family plot at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn and left behind noble children. He is the grandfather of the Damascus judge Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad.

43 – Ibn ʿAllān, Abū al-Maʿālī Saʿd ibn al-Musallam ibn Makkī al-Qaysī*

The trustworthy shaykh, Tāj al-Dīn, Abū al-Maʿālī Saʿd ibn al-Musallam ibn Makkī ibn ʿAllān al-Qaysī, of Damascus.