ʿUthmān ibn Ismāʿīl (1) ibn Ibrāhīm (2) ibn Shabīb al-Saʿdī, an Egyptian of the Shāriʿī quarter and a preacher.
He was born (3) in 583 AH.
He studied ḥadith under his father, Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maqdisī, Ismāʿīl ibn Yāsīn, Hibat Allāh al-Būṣīrī, and many others, transmitting prolifically. He dedicated himself to ḥadith and scholarship, excelled in noble pursuits, combined piety with eloquent admonition and a prodigious memory, and was regarded as a leading authority in astronomical time-keeping.
He, together with his father, grandfather, brothers, and descendants, all served as transmitters.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir (4) 659 AH.
Those who narrated from him include al-Dawādārī, Ibn al-Ẓāhirī, Shuʿbān al-Irbilī, and others, the last of whom was Nāfilatuh, who died in 739 AH.
- Ibn Dirbās, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿĪsā al-Mārānī *
The Imām and judge, Kamāl al-Dīn, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad, son of the Chief Judge, Ṣadr