al-ʿAẓīm ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salāmah ibn Saʿd al-Mundhirī, originally from greater Syria, later settled in Egypt, and a committed Shāfiʿī.
He was born on the first day of Shaʿbān in the year 581 AH.
Among the scholars whose transmissions he heard were: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥamd al-Artāḥī—the first teacher he met, in 591 AH; ʿUmar ibn Ṭabarzad, his highest-ranking authority; Abū al-Jūd Ghiyāth the Qurʾān-reciter; Sitt al-Kuttāb, daughter of ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭirrāḥ; Yūnus ibn Yaḥyā al-Hāshimī, whom he encountered in Mecca; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Āmūsān, who dictated to him in Medina; ʿAlī ibn al-Mufaḍḍal the ḥāfiẓ, whose company he kept for a long time and under whom he graduated; ʿAbd al-Mujīb ibn Zuhayr al-Ḥarbī; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Buteit; Abū Rūḥ al-Bayhaqī; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Bannāʾ al-Ṣūfī; ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Karam Ibn al-Bannāʾ al-Khallāl; Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn al-Zanf ⦗1⦘; Abū al-Yumn Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kindī; Abū al-Futūḥ Ibn al-Jalājulī; Abū al-Maʿālī Asʿad ibn al-Munajjā, author of al-Khilāṣah; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyidihim al-Anṣārī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Sulamī, the perfume-seller; Shaykh Abū ʿUmar ibn Qudāmah; Dāwūd ibn Mulāʿib; Abū Nazār Rabīʿah ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥaḍramī; the Imām Muwaffaq al-Dīn Ibn Qudāmah; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-ʿUthmānī; Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī; and the erudite Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Najm ibn Shās al-Mālikī.