and, when he was four years old, he attended the sessions of his grandfather, the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAṭṭār, in the Maʿmar Congregational Mosque (1). In Baghdad he studied under Shuhda and Ibn Shātil. His mother was ʿĀtika, daughter of the ḥāfiẓ.
He later delivered review lectures at the Niẓāmiyya, deputising in the western quarter for his brother, the judge ʿAlī. He was a righteous, devout man.
After 620 AH he narrated hadith in Damascus, residing in the Ghazāliyya quarter. He then returned, assumed the judgeship, and earned praise in that office.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Sharīshī, Ibn Balbān, the preacher ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Shamāʾil, and Shaykh ʿIzz al-Din al-Farūthī.
He gave ijāzah to Fāṭima bint Sulaymān, to Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Shīrāzī, to several others—among them Ibn Saʿd and Muḥammad al-Bijjādī (2)—and to Sitt al-Fuqahāʾ al-Wāsiṭiyya. The last person to receive his narration in a formal audition was al-ʿImād Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ṭabbāl (3).
He died on 7 Shawwāl 637 AH, at the age of seventy-four.