He narrated hadith in the year 655 AH, and it appears that he was martyred by the sword of the Tatars. The amount he had heard is beyond description for its sheer abundance.

238 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī, a descendant of Qudāmah ibn Miqdām: jurist, Qurʾān-reciter, long-lived hadith authority, known as Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Maqdisī al-Jammāʿīlī al-Ḥanbalī. He was the brother of the al-ʿImād mentioned earlier, and their father was a cousin of Shaykh Abū ʿUmar.

He arrived while still a young man and heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr, ʿAbd al-Razzaq ibn Naṣr al-Najjār, Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī, Ibn Ṣadaqah al-Ḥarrānī, and others.

Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī and Shahdah the Scribe granted him an ijāzah (formal authorisation), and he was the last person to transmit from her on that basis.

He was devout and virtuous, given to abundant Qurʾān recitation, self-restrained and absorbed in his own worship. He led the prayers in the village of al-Sāwiyah on Mount Nablus, and Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ and others praised him.

Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyyah, al-Dimyāṭī, the Hanbalī judge Taqī al-Dīn, the judge Sharaf al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bijjādī, Muḥammad ibn al-Zarrād, ʿĀʾishah—sister of Maḥāsin—Zaynab bint al-Kamāl, and a number of others.

In 652 AH he recited the entire Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim in the hills on the authority of Ibn Ṣadaqah, after which he returned to his village.

Al-Sharīf ʿIzz al-Dīn (1) said: “He was martyred at al-Sāwiyah in the district of Nablus at the hands of …”