260 – al-Fāsī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf
The Shaykh of the Qur’an reciters, the erudite scholar, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Fāsī, author of the Commentary on the Shāṭibiyyah.
He learned the canonical readings from Ibn ʿĪsā, the direct students of al-Shāṭibī, the judge Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ibn Shaddād, and a number of others.
In jurisprudence he followed Abū Ḥanīfah. He was a leading authority in the readings and in grammar—devout, scrupulous, dignified, deliberate, and possessed of an elegant hand.
Those who studied under him include Badr al-Dīn al-Bādhiqī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ibn al-Naḥḥās, the noble Ḥusayn b. Qatādah, Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh b. Rafiʿā al-Jazarī, and many others.
He eventually settled in Aleppo.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir (1) of the year 656 AH, being a little over seventy years old.
261 – Ibn al-ʿAlqamī, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Baghdādī
The grand vizier, chief administrator—and bringer of ruin—Muʾayyad al-Dīn Muḥammad b.