said to be versed in sīmiyāʾ—occult talismanic science—and he produced a Qur’an commentary as well as a treatise on the stars. He died in Shaʿbān (1), 639 AH.
64 – al-Qubbayṭī, Abū Ṭālib ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥamza
The eminent shaykh, a reliable authority, and—by consensus—the foremost musnid of Iraq: Abū Ṭālib ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Abī al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥamza ibn Fāris, descendant of the Qubbayṭī family, originally from Ḥarrān, later settling in Baghdad. He was a merchant and jeweller.
He was born in Shaʿbān 554 AH.
Among those from whom he received hadith were: his grandfather ʿAlī ibn Ḥamza; Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī; Hibat Allāh ibn Hilāl al-Daqqāq; Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Baṭṭī; Aḥmad ibn al-Muqarrib; Yaḥyā ibn Thābit; Abū Bakr ibn al-Naqqūr, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include: Jamāl al-Dīn al-Sharīshī; Taqī al-Dīn ibn al-Wāsiṭī; Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Zayn; ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Fārūthī; ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Balbān; Rashīd al-Dīn ibn Abī al-Qāsim; ʿImād al-Dīn ibn al-Ṭabbāl; ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn al-Buzūrī; ʿAlī ibn Ḥuṣayn; Sunqar al-Qaḍāʾī; Tāj al-Dīn al-Gharāfī, and many others.