, ibn Ghānim, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Khallāl, al-Rukn al-Ṭāwūsī, and al-Fakhr ibn ʿAsākir. Also in attendance was Abū al-Maʿālī ibn al-Bālisī.
He had previously enjoyed high favour with King Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin.
He died on the 5th of Ṣafar, 642 AH.
In that same year there also passed away: Ẓāfir ibn Shaḥm the embroiderer (1); al-Qāḍī al-Rafīʿ; Qamar ibn Biṭṭāḥ the grocer; al-Nafīs Muḥammad ibn Rawāḥa; al-Khaṭīb al-Mizzī (2); and al-Najm Ḥasan ibn Sallām the scribe.
His brother’s sons (3):
73 – al-ʿImād Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥammūyah *
The client, court companion, and Shaykh of the shaykhs, Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar, son of the Shaykh of the shaykhs Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad, son of ʿImād al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ḥammūyah.
He was born in Damascus in 581 AH.
He was raised in Egypt, and he heard hadith from al-Athīr ibn Bunān and al-Shihāb al-Ghaznawī,
(1) He is Zafir ibn Tahir ibn Zafir ibn Ismail ibn al-Hakam, Abu al-Mansur al-Iskandarani, a Maliki embroiderer, better known as Ibn Shahm (Tarikh al-Islam, fol. 170).
(2) This refers to Khatab ibn Abd al-Karim ibn Abi al-Maali al-Harithi al-Mizzi.
(3) The expression designates Ibn Hamuwyah’s nephews, namely the four biographees who follow: al-Imad, al-Kamal, al-Muin and al-Fakhr.
(*) Main sources: Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, Mirat al-Zaman 8/721-724; al-Mundhiri, al-Takmila li-Wafayat al-Naqala 3, no. 2870; Abu Shama, Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, pp. 167-168; Talkhis Majma al-Adab fi Mujam al-Alqab 4, no. 1160; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibr 5/150-151; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam (Aya Sofya 3012) fol. 181; al-Fayumi, Nathr al-Juman 2, fol. 103-104; Ibn al-Mulaqqin, al-Aqd al-Mudhhab, fol. 175-176; al-Ayni, Aqd al-Juman 18, fol. 220-221; Ibn Taghri, al-Nujum al-Zahira 1/313-314; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 5/181.