and to al-Shāṭibī, completing several full readings of the Qur’an. He also studied law with al-ʿIrāqī and with Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, excelled in the Shāfiʿī school, delivered the sermon in the Great Mosque of Cairo, and the mantle of senior scholarship ultimately rested on his shoulders.
He narrated abundantly in Damascus, Mecca, Cairo, and Qūṣ. Among those who transmitted from him were al-Barzālī, al-Mundhirī, Ibn al-Najjār, al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Sayrafī, Fakhr al-Tawzarī, al-Amīn Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās, al-Raḍī al-Ṭabarī, Ibn al-Shīrāzī, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Qurashī, and many others of our teachers. He lived a little more than ninety years.
He died on 24 Dhū al-Ḥijja 649 AH.
Accurate in his fatwas, imposing in dignity, scrupulous in conduct, he was the chief authority of his day.
In that same year there also died: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Qumayra the merchant; the Mustanṣiriyya professor Abū al-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Anṣārī al-Ḥalabī, a Ḥanafī who had lectured in Aleppo; Abū Naṣr al-Aʿazz ibn al-ʿUllayq al-Bābasrī; the traditionist Sālim ibn Thumāliy ibn ʿInān al-ʿUrḍī; Abū Ḥāmid ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAshāʾir al-Ḥalabī; the upright ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī; Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Anjab al-Nishtibrī; ʿAbd al-Dāʾim ibn ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn al-Dajjājī al-Miṣrī, known as ʿImād al-Dīn; the Mustanṣiriyya lecturer, Chief Judge Kamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Lamghānī the Ḥanafī; al-Rashīd ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir ibn Nashwān al-Judhāmī, the blind Qur’an-reciter; Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Zubaydī, aged eighty-nine; the preacher of Ronda, the traditionist Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿĀṣim al-Asadī al-Rundī, aged eighty-seven; the ḥadith master Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ghāfiqī al-Shārī; and al-Sadīd ʿĪsā ibn Makkī al-ʿĀmirī, the Qur’an-reciter.