107 – al-Makhzūmī, Abū al-Maʿālī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān*
The just Imām, ḥadith scholar, “Support of the Religion,” popularly styled al-Qāḍī al-Mukarram. His full name is Abū al-Maʿālī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān ibn Yūsuf al-Makhzūmī, al-Mughīrī, al-Miṣrī, the Shāfiʿī, the court witness.

Born: in the month of Ṣafar (1), in the year sixty-nine.

He received ijāzah from Baghdad through Fakhr al-Nisāʾ Shuhdaʾ and ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī; from Mosul through its preacher Abū al-Faḍl al-Ṭūsī; from Damascus through the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim; from the Frontier through Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Salafī; and from several others, including ʿĪsā al-Dūshābī, Ibn Shātil, Muslim ibn Thābit, and Abū Shākir al-Saqlāṭūnī.

He also heard hadith directly from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Barrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Raḥbī, al-Buṣīrī, al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir, al-Athīr ibn Bunān, and many others.

He transmitted extensively and came from a family of stature and nobility.

Those who narrated from him include al-Munḏirī, al-Dimyāṭī, Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Qaymarī, Ibn al-ʿImādiyya, al-Tāj Ismāʿīl ibn Quraysh, and a number of others.

By written license he also authorized the long-lived Wajīhiyya bint Abī al-Ḥasan al-Muʾaddib.

He was pious, devoted to abundant Qur’an recitation, and kept himself aloof from court retainers.