and the judge Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mujallī (1); ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Mandawayh al-Iṣbahānī; the preacher ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Najā al-Anṣārī—who heard him while he was exhorting the people; Najīb ibn Bishārah al-Saʿdī (2), who received from him a reading of the book al-ʿUnwān; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bāqā; Muḥammad ibn ʿImād; Abū al-Maḥāsin ibn Shaddād; Abū Ṭālib ibn Ḥadīd; together with many others whom he met in the Two Sanctuaries, Egypt, greater Syria, and the Jazīrah.

He compiled al-Muʿjam in a single volume and al-Muwāfaqāt in a single volume; produced abridgments of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim and the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd, examined their transmitters, and cross-referenced every report to the two Ṣaḥīḥs, to one of them, or declared it weak. He also authored an extensive commentary on al-Tanbīh in jurisprudence, compiled a collection of forty hadiths, and other works besides.

He studied the Qurʾānic readings with Abū al-Thanāʾ Ḥāmid ibn Aḥmad al-Atārḥī; pursued jurisprudence under the Imām Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Qurashī al-Shāfiʿī; and learned Arabic from Abū al-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī.

Ḥāfiẓ ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī (3) said: “Our teacher lectured in the al-Ẓāfirī Mosque, then was appointed shaykh of the Dār al-Kāmilīyah, where he remained in seclusion, wholly devoted to knowledge. In the science of hadith, across all its branches, he was without peer—reliable, authoritative, devout, and exacting. I read a fine selection of his narrations to him and benefited from him greatly.”