He produced a two-volume commentary on the Shāṭibiyyah, and another, in a single volume, on the Rāʾiyyah. He also wrote The Beauty of the Reciters and The Illuminating Lamp on Etiquette. In his Qur’an commentary he reached Sūrah al-Kahf, a work that filled four volumes, and he composed a four-volume exposition of the Mufaṣṣal. He left behind both poetry and prose.

He would allow himself to listen to the recitation of two or more students at the same time, each one reading a different surah; this runs counter to the Sunnah, for we have been commanded to listen attentively to one reciter so that we may understand, reflect, and ponder.

He visited Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn outside Acre in 586 AH during the siege and praised him with a lengthy ode. He also composed a panegyric for al-Rashīd al-Fāriqī, and more than one hundred years separate the deaths of the two men he eulogised.

Imām Abū Shāmah (1) said: “On the twelfth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah in 643 AH our shaykh ʿAlam al-Dīn—the luminary of his age and the master of his time—passed away at his residence in the Ṣāliḥiyyah cemetery. His funeral was attended with awe, majesty, and humble devotion. From him I benefited greatly in the readings, tafsīr, and the sciences of Arabic.”

I say: He used to teach recitation at the Ṣāliḥiyyah complex, and he maintained a circle in the congregational mosque.

95 – Ibn al-Khāzin, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Muwaffaq al-Nīsābūrī
The eminent, righteous, and authoritative transmitter, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd (2) ibn Abī al-Baqāʾ,