He heard from Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī, spent a period residing near the Sanctuary, and was known for his generosity, filial piety, and charity.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Mundhirī, al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Ẓāhirī, al-Muḥibb—the author of al-Aḥkām—, Raḍī al-Dīn, the Imām of the Maqām, together with his brother Ṣafī al-Dīn Aḥmad; Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn al-Naḥḥās, his brother al-Amīn Muḥammad, and many others.
He died on the 23rd of Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 645 AH.
He transmitted only the two collections known as al-Arbaʿīnayn.
179 – Ibn Abī Ḥaramī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Futūḥ ibn Banīn al-Makkī *
Shaykh, long-lived scholar, and musnid; kunya: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥaramī Futūḥ ibn Banīn al-Makkī, the scribe and perfumer.
Born: mid-540s AH.
While still a young man he auditioned the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī through the Abū Dharr transmission, reading it to the Qurʾān-reciter ʿAlī ibn ʿAmmār, who had himself heard it from Abū Maktūm ʿĪsā ibn Abī Dharr. He later travelled to Baghdad and heard from Abū al-Fath ibn Shātil and Naṣr Allāh al-Qazzāz; and, in Damascus, from Abū al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Banyāsī and the judge Abū Saʿd ibn Abī ʿAsrūn. Al-Salafī also granted him a licence.
Those who narrated from him include Majd al-Dīn al-ʿUqaylī, Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Ṭabarī, and the ḥāfiẓ Abū