I add: Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Yūnīnī, Abū Muḥammad al-Dimyāṭī, al-Sharaf al-Maydūmī, al-Taqī ʿUbayd, Shaykh Muḥammad al-Qazzāz, al-Fakhr Ibn ʿAsākir, ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Dawwādārī, the Chief Justice Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad al-Saʿbī, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Wazīrī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Asad Ibn al-Athīr, ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Quraysh al-Makhzūmī, al-ʿImād Ibn al-Jarāʾidī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Ibn al-Dufūfī, Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar al-Khutanī, and a host of others besides.

He taught for a time in the al-Ẓāfirī congregational mosque before becoming shaykh of the Kāmilīyah lodge. He used to assert that he had heard hadith from the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī, though we have found no corroboration for this; nonetheless, ʿAbd al-Ghanī granted him a general licence for his narrations. He was steadfast in religion, marked by devotion, scrupulousness, dignity, and an awe-inspiring presence.

Our shaykh al-Dimyāṭī said, “He is my teacher and the one who certified my narrations. I came to him as a beginner and left him repeating his lessons in hadith on his behalf.”

He then added, “He passed away on the fourth of Dhū al-Qaʿdah in the year 656 AH, and more than one poet mourned him with graceful elegies.”

The sayyid ʿIzz al-Dīn (1) likewise said: “Our shaykh Zakī al-Dīn was thoroughly versed in sound and weak hadith, in hidden defects and transmission routes. He had a deep command of their rulings, meanings, and problematic passages; excelled in the uncommon vocabulary, grammatical analysis, and variant wordings. He was an imām, a definitive authority.”

I further note: In that same year there also died the Commander of the Faithful al-Mustʿaṣim billāh Abū Aḥmad—killed as a martyr when Baghdad was taken—together with his two sons, Aḥmad and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; his uncles ʿAlī, Ḥasan, Sulaymān, Yūsuf, and Ḥabīb, the sons of the caliph al-Ẓāhir; his cousins Ḥusayn and Yaḥyā, the sons of ʿAlī; the ruler of the amirs Mujāhid al-Dīn Aybak al-Dawīdār; and Sulaymān