He copied a great many books for wages.
He passed away on the third of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir in 656 AH.
In 640 AH we read before Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Kāmyār on the basis of an ijāzah that he had received from him, an authorization unique to him.
His brother, the imam, the travelling traditionist:
- Abū al-ʿIzz Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿAlī al-Shāfiʿī
The jurist.
He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Junayd in Isfahān; from al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī and a number of others in Nishapur; from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad in Herāt; from Abū al-Yumn al-Kindī in Damascus; and al-Salafī likewise granted him an ijāzah.
Those who narrated from him include Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn al-Fazārī, his brother, Fakhr ibn ʿAsākir, Muḥammad ibn Khaṭīb Bayt al-Abar, and, in my presence, al-ʿImād ibn al-Bālisī.
He was learned, righteous, dignified, and scrupulous—a man devoted to the Sunnah and well-versed in knowledge.
He died in Shawwāl (1), the year of the Khwārazmian incursion, 643 AH.
- Ibn al-ʿAjamī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥalabī
The muftī, the patron, the leading notable, Abū Ṭālib ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn