221 – Ibn Bāṭīsh, Abū al-Majd Ismāʿīl ibn Hibat Allāh al-Mawṣilī *
The erudite polymath, ʿImād al-Dīn, Abū al-Majd Ismāʿīl ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Bāṭīsh al-Mawṣilī, a Shāfiʿī.
He was born (1) in the year 575 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Ibn al-Jawzī, Ibn Sukaynah, and Hanbal.
His works include: Kitāb Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah (Biographical Layers of the Shāfiʿī School); Mushtabih al-Nisbah (Ambiguous Nisbahs); and al-Mughnī fī Lughāt al-Muhadhdhab wa-Rijālih (An Exhaustive Lexicon of the Terms and Authorities of al-Muhadhdhab).
He was a scholar of legal theory and a man of wide attainment.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Dimyāṭī, al-Tāj al-Ṣāliḥ, al-Badr ibn al-Tūzī, and a number of others.
He taught for a time at the Nūriyya College in Aleppo.
He died in Jumādā (2) al-Ākhira, 655 AH.
222 – ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mundhirī **
The Imām, the erudite scholar, the ḥāfiẓ, the critical investigator, Shaykh al-Islām, Zakī al-Dīn, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd