among the works he auditioned was Kitab al-Shifaʾ by Qadi ʿIyad; he heard it from Ibn Balban and transmitted it.
72 – Ibn Ḥammūyah* Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAli al-Juwayni
The eminent and distinguished imam, Shaykh of the shaykhs, Taj al-Din, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah—also known as ʿAbd al-Salam—the son of the exemplary shaykh Abū al-Fath ʿUmar ibn ʿAli, grandson of the exemplar and gnostic Muḥammad ibn Ḥammūyah al-Juwayni, originally from Khurasan and later a Damascene; a Sufi and a Shafiʿi.
He was born in Damascus in 566 AH.
He heard hadith from the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qasim Ibn ʿAsakir and a number of others. In Baghdad he studied under Fakhr al-Nisaʾ Shuhdah. He journeyed to the Maghrib in 593 AH, remained there for seven years, and studied with Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥawṭ Allah and other scholars. He then settled in Marrakesh.
He was a learned historian and man of letters, the author of several compilations. He was marked by humility and chastity, paying no heed to his nephews, the princes.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Mundhiri, Shaykh Zayn al-Din al-Fāriqi, and Abū ʿAbd Allah