In his early days⦗1⦘ he was devoted to worship and constant Qur’an recitation. Later he claimed to suffer from arthritis, which left him unable to move, so he appointed someone to teach in his stead. On the day al-Mustaʿṣim’s oath of allegiance was taken, he attended in a litter and sat to receive the pledge. He remained of exalted rank until he died in 642 AH⦗2⦘.

84 – al-Rafīʿ ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ismāʿīl al-Jīlī *
The erudite scholar, specialist in uṣūl, philosopher, “Rafīʿ al-Dīn,” Chief Judge, Abū Ḥāmid ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ismāʿīl al-Jīlī, a Shafiʿi.

He had plunged deeply into the sciences of the ancients, whereupon darkness settled over both his heart and his outward state. He came to Damascus and took the leading teaching position, after which al-Ṣāliḥ Ismaʿīl appointed him judge of Baalbek; he and his vizier al-Amīn al-Muslimānī both favoured him. When Ismaʿīl gained control of Damascus he likewise made him its judge. His conduct was censured and his inner disposition foul. Amīn al-Dawlah colluded with him in harming the people, and he made use of perjured witnesses and hired agents, so that a man of means would be summoned to his court and he would set about⦗3⦘