One day he asked him, “How much of the Nūniyyah have you memorized? (1)” Al-Majd immediately replied, “Master, I have learned the entire lesson,” and he recited it straight through. Fakhr was astonished and said, “Something outstanding will come from this young man.”
He thereafter presented Fakhr with his work Jannat al-Nāẓir; in 606 AH Fakhr wrote an endorsement for it and greatly praised him. Thus, Fakhr was his teacher in dialectics; Abū al-Baqāʾ was his teacher in grammar and the laws of inheritance; Abū Bakr ibn Ghunaymah, a companion of Ibn al-Mannī, was his teacher in jurisprudence; and Ibn Sulṭān was his teacher in Qurʾānic readings. He stayed in Baghdad for six years, wholly devoted to study (2), then returned home. Before 620 AH he journeyed to Baghdad again, increased in knowledge, and produced several works, all while maintaining religion, piety, exemplary adherence, and commanding scholarship.
He died in Ḥarrān on the day of Eid al-Fiṭr, in 652 AH.
199 – Ibn Ṭalḥah, Abū Sālim Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Muḥammad al-Qurashī
The unrivalled scholar, Kamāl al-Dīn, Abū Sālim Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Qurashī al-ʿAdawī, from Naṣībīn, a Shāfiʿī. He was born in 582 AH, excelled in the school and its legal theory, and shared in many disciplines, but he drifted into the fantasies of the “science of letters” and adopted an ascetic way of life. He served as a correspondent for kings and was appointed vizier of Damascus for two days before resigning. He possessed great stature and prestige.