al-Ṣamad al-Nasawī, Abū al-Fahm al-ʿAjāʾizī, and several others.

Among those who narrated from him were Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn and his brother al-Khaṭīb, Rashīd al-Dīn ibn al-Muʿallim, Fakhr ibn ʿAsākir, his cousin Bahāʾ, Zayn ibn al-Shīrāzī, and others.

He was counted among the city’s elders; he owned a mule and fine attire. He also produced a Tārīkh that contains assorted pieces (1), and he left behind poetry of moderate quality.

He died in Jumada al-Ula (2) of the year 703 AH as well.

135 – Ibn Abī Jaʿfar, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Qurṭubī

The imam, eminent hadith scholar, and upright authority Tāj al-Dīn, Abū al-Hasan Muḥammad, son of the scholar Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Qurṭubī—later known as al-Dimashqī—served as imam of the Kallāsah Mosque, succeeding his father in that office.

He was born at the beginning of the year seventy-five.

He performed the pilgrimage with his father in the year nine, and toward the end of the year five he heard hadith from ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Furāwī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Sukaynah, Zuhayr Shaʿrānah, and Muḥammad ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Fāṭimī.

In Damascus he received transmission from Ibn Abī ʿAsrūn and Aḥmad ibn al-Mawāzīnī.