Ibn al-Najjār said: He pursued advanced legal study in Baghdad under Ibn Faḍlān and Yaḥyā ibn al-Rabīʿ; he mastered the school, its legal principles, and the points of disagreement, issued fatwas, engaged in debate, and lectured at the Niẓāmiyya. He was subsequently appointed supervisor of the Sacred Sanctuary and its maintenance.

He died in Mecca, in the month of Ṣafar (1), in 646 AH.

Ḥāfiẓ Quṭb al-Dīn informed me; Quṭb al-Dīn Ibn al-Qasṭalānī related, saying:

Abū al-Nuʿmān Bashīr told me: “I visited Ibn al-Khawāfī in Baghdad, and my sandals were stolen, so I wrote to him:

I came to you, my hope invested in Bashīr;
but when I left I was reduced to Bashar (2).
Return the yā’ that has fallen from my name—
for in the abjad reckoning that yā’ is worth ten.”

He thereupon sent me half a mithqāl.

168 – Ibn al-Bayṭār, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī *

The eminent scholar, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī, the botanist-physician known as Ibn al-Bayṭār, author of The Book of Simple Drugs, a work without parallel in its field.

The knowledge of medicinal herbs culminated in him. He journeyed to the furthest parts of the lands of Rūm, carried out meticulous research on plants, was exceptionally insightful, and served Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil and his son al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ.