al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Sāwī—Damascene by birth, Egyptian by residence—a Sufi who was formerly known as Ibn al-Mukhalliṣ.
He was born in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 568 AH.
He heard a number of fascicles from Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, and he also took transmission from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Barrī, Hibat Allāh al-Būṣīrī, and al-Tāj al-Masʿūdī.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū Muḥammad al-Dimyāṭī, Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abrqūhī, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Qaysarānī, Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣayrafī, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Nashw, al-Amīn al-Ṣaffār, and others.
He belonged to the Sufis of the Khānqāh Saʿīd al-Suʿadāʾ.
He passed away on 11 Rajab 647 AH, and he alone possessed certain transmissions with particularly elevated chains.
154 – Ibn al-Jabbāb, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Tamīmī *
The venerable shaykh, the pride of the judges, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Jabbāb al-Tamīmī al-Saʿdī, an Egyptian Mālikī, renowned for his uprightness and his supervision of endowments.
He was born in 561 AH.