al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah ibn Miqdām ibn Naṣr al-Maqdisī, originally from Jammāʿīl and later a Damascene resident of the Ṣāliḥiyyah quarter, Ḥanbalī by school, and a children’s instructor.
He was born in Jammāʿīl, circa 573 AH.
He came to Damascus while still a boy and studied with Aḥmad ibn Ḥamzah ibn al-Mawāzīnī, Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Khiraqī, al-Janzawī, al-Khushūʿī, Yūsuf ibn Maʿālī, and a group of others.
The shaykh was pleasant-mannered, upright, and an excellent teacher; he ran a maktab (elementary school) in the Qassāʿīn district.
Among those who narrated from him were his sons—our teacher al-ʿIzz Aḥmad, as well as Muḥammad and ʿAbd al-Hādī—together with Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Barzalī (despite his seniority), al-Dimyāṭī, Tāj al-Dīn Ṣāliḥ al-Jaʿbarī, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Fazārī, Badr al-Dīn ibn al-Tūzī, Ibn al-Khabbāz, Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Zabbāṭir, the judge Sharaf al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ, Muḥammad ibn al-Muḥibb, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zarrād, and several others.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 658 AH.
In the same year there also passed away: his long-lived brother Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī; Ibrāhīm ibn Khalīl, executed by the sword; and the jurist Abū Ṭālib ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAjamī al-Ḥalabī, a Shāfiʿī who died a martyr under Tatar torture at the age of eighty-nine; he had received hadith from Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī.
That year likewise witnessed the death of the centenarian Abū Ṭālib Tammām ibn Abī Bakr al-Surūrī al-Dimashqī al-Jundī, the governor, who narrated from Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī;
and of al-Muʿaẓẓam Abū al-Mafākhir Turānshāh, son of the great Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, in Aleppo, aged eighty-one; he narrated from Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī and Ibn Ṣadaqah;
and of al-Shihāb Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Khiḍr ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Hamawī, then—