ʿAbd Allāh son of al-Ḥasan son of ʿAlī son of Abī al-Qāsim son of Ṣadaqa son of al-Ṣafrawī, originally from Alexandria and later a resident of Cairo, a follower of the Shāfiʿī school—better known as Ibn ʿAyn al-Dawla.
He was born in Alexandria (al-Thaghr) in 551 AH.
He entered Cairo in 573 AH, acting there as deputy for Ibn Darbās. No fewer than eight of his relatives had already served as judges of Alexandria. He himself assumed independent authority over the judiciary of Cairo in 613 AH, and in 617 AH he was appointed chief judge of the province.
Learned in jurisprudence, endowed with many virtues, he composed both verse and prose and was renowned for chastity and uprightness.
He died in Dhū al-Qaʿda (1), 639 AH.
81 – ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Khalaf ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, Abū Muḥammad al-Dimashqī *
A jurist, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn, Abū Muḥammad al-Dimashqī al-Ṣāliḥī, the Ḥanbalī, the washer of the deceased, imam of the Arza Mosque on the Ṣāliḥiyya road.
He was born circa 547 AH (2).
He received hadith from Abū al-Fahm ibn Abī al-ʿAjāʾiz, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn Ṣaṣrā, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Wafāʾ, Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Ṣābir, and several others.
He compiled a teaching-certificate collection (mashyakha).