ibn Nasim, and Abū al-Fath ibn al-Mannī; under the latter he pursued fiqh, after which he adopted the Shafi‘i school. He kept the company of al-Mujīr al-Baghdādī and cultivated refined conduct with Abū al-Hasan ibn al-ʿAssār.
Tāj al-Dīn al-Gharrāfī narrated to us from him.
He was well-versed in the school and its subtleties, pious and devout, much given to Qur’an recitation, pilgrimage, and night prayer. He had a long reach in debate, deputised on the bench for Ibn Faḍlān, and in 626 AH he took up a teaching chair at the Niẓāmiyya⦗1⦘.
He died in Shawwal⦗2⦘, 639 AH.
83 – Ibn al-Nāqid, Abū al-Azhar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī *
The exalted vizier, Naṣīr al-Dīn⦗3⦘, Abū al-Azhar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī.
He studied grammar, mastered calligraphy, travelled about, and was the milk-brother of the Caliph al-Ẓāhir.
He assumed the post of ustādh-dāriyya (palace steward) of the Caliphate, and then became vizier in 629 AH,