He heard al-Taysīr in Qūṣ from Ibn Iqbāl al-Marīnī, and he received instruction from Ismāʿīl ibn Yāsīn, al-Artāḥī, al-Khushūʿī—at length and in great quantity—then from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir, al-ʿImād the secretary, Asmāʾ bint al-Rān, Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī, Muḥammad ibn al-Khaṣīb, Maḥmūd ibn Asad, ʿAbd al-Malik al-Dawlaʿī, Ḥanbal, Ibn Tabarzadh, and a large number of others. For his own use he composed an extensive biographical index (muʿjam) in four volumes, which contains several inaccuracies. He also possessed ijāzahs from many people, poets among them. After establishing ties with the minister Ṣafī al-Dīn Ibn Shukr he advanced in rank; al-Malik al-ʿĀdil even dispatched him as an envoy. For a period he managed the public treasury, taught, issued legal opinions, endowed a study circle, a ḥadith lodge, and a mausoleum. He habitually wore the Egyptian mantle (ṭaylasān) and rode a mule.
Those who transmitted ḥadith from him include al-Dimyāṭī, al-Kanjī, al-Zayn al-Abīwardī, Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Khallāl, al-ʿImād Ibn al-Bālīsī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Zarrād, al-Rashīd al-Raqqī, and others.
He died on 17 Rabīʿ al-Awwal 653 AH.
In that same year also died: the mufti al-Ḍiyāʾ Ṣaqr ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥalabī, aged ninety-four; ʿAlī ibn Maʿālī al-Rusāfī, the Qur’an-reciter; al-Nūr al-Balkhī; and the naqīb of the Prophet’s descendants in Aleppo, ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Murtaḍā Ibn Abī Ṭālib Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥalabī.
196 – Ṣāliḥ ibn Shujāʿ ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyidihim ibn ʿAmr al-Mudlijī *
The truthful shaykh, Abū al-Taqā, the son of Shaykh —