and Ṣadr Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Urmawī, and Sharaf Muḥammad, son of the preacher of Bayt al-Abbār, and Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Majd ibn al-Muhtār, and the judge Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Jīlī, and Shihāb Aḥmad ibn al-ʿAfīf al-Ḥanafī, and others besides.

Judge Shams al-Dīn Ibn Khallikān (1) said, “I have been informed that he went through the entire al-Muhadhdhab before a single hair had appeared on his upper lip, and that he later served as a teaching assistant under the erudite ʿImād al-Dīn ibn Yūnus.”

Taqī al-Dīn ranked among the foremost scholars of his era in Qur’an exegesis, hadith, and jurisprudence, and he participated in a number of other disciplines as well. His legal opinions were precise. He is one of the shaykhs from whom I derived benefit: I remained with him in study and kept his company for a full year—that was in the year 32—and he produced several critical notes on al-Wasīṭ.

The ḥadith scholar ʿUmar ibn al-Hājib mentioned him in his Muʿjam, saying, “A devout imam of keen intellect and fine demeanor, thoroughly versed in both the fundamentals and the branches. He strove so hard in the pursuit of knowledge that he became proverbial, and he exerted himself greatly in obedience and worship.”

I say: He possessed an astonishing majesty, dignity, and awe, along with eloquence and beneficial knowledge. His religious commitment was strong; in creed he followed the way of the early generations, sound in belief, refraining from ventures into matters where many stumble. He believed in Allah and in what has come from Allah concerning His Names and Attributes. Well-dressed and greatly respected, he was highly esteemed by the ruler. In Marw he heard a large body of hadith from Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Mūsawī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sanjī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Masʿūdī. He arrived in Damascus around the year 13, after completing his journeys through Khurasan, Iraq, and al-Jazīrah.

Together with his deep mastery of jurisprudence, he transmitted material with refined precision; his command of language and Arabic was strong, and he was versatile in the science of hadith.