He also granted teaching licences to a great many people. Upright, eminent, an Imām in learning and a jurist thoroughly versed in the points of disagreement, he repeated his lectures at the Mustanṣiriyya College. For a time he dyed his beard black, then abandoned the practice. Counted among the leading scholars of his age, he served in the Dīwān al-Tashrīfāt, led the prayers in the Maʾmūniyya Mosque, and lived to an advanced age. He died on the seventh of Jumādā II, 649 AH.

166 – Ibn al-Jumayzī, ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Salāma al-Lakhmī
The shaykh of the Egyptian lands, the erudite authority, muftī and Qur’an-reciter, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Salāma ibn al-Musallam al-Lakhmī, an Egyptian Shāfiʿī, preacher and teacher, and the maternal grandson of Shaykh Abū al-Fawāris al-Jumayzī.

He was born in Egypt on the Day of Sacrifice, 559 AH. He memorised the Qur’an while still a child, after which his father took him on a study journey: in 568 AH he heard ḥadīth from the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir, and in Baghdad from Shuhda al-Kātiba.

He recited the ten canonical readings to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Baṭāʾiḥī and to the judge Sharaf al-Dīn Ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn, under whom he also studied jurisprudence and transmitted copiously.

He likewise received ḥadīth from ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, Yaḥyā ibn al-Saqlāṭūnī, Muḥammad ibn Nasīm, and hurried to hear from Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Silafī, Abū Ṭālib al-Lakhmī, Ibn ʿAwf, and the grammarian Ibn Barrī.

He also recited to al-Shāṭibī.