of the disciples of Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī. He also received part of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim from his mother’s uncle, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zarqūn, and heard hadith from Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh. He mastered the seven canonical readings under ʿAlī ibn Hishām al-Judhāmī. He lived to an advanced age and became a singular authority.

Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr and a number of others narrated from him. Ibn al-Zubayr said: “He was a man of letters, a poet, and a scholar who later became incapacitated, yet he completed a full recitation of the Qur’an every day.” He lived for ninety (1) years, and I visited him often.

He passed away in 655 (2) AH.

208 – Al-ʿImād Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf al-Zubaydī al-Maqdisī*

The imam and eloquent preacher, ʿImād al-Dīn Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf al-Zubaydī—originally of Jerusalem, later of Damascus—Abū al-Maʿālī, preacher of the Bayt al-Abbār mosque and the son of its preacher.

He attended the lessons of al-Khushūʿī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Fayrūz, al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir, and Ibn Tabarzad.

Among those who transmitted from him were al-Dimyāṭī, ʿImād ibn al-Bālisī, Fakhr ibn ʿAsākir, his son Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd, and others.

He was virtuous, devout, articulate, and an engaging admonisher. He taught at the Ghazāliyyah school and took the Damascus pulpit after Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Salām was removed, and then, after six—