Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Saʿdī, the Jerusalemite, resident of al-Ṣāliḥiyya, a Hanbalī.
He narrated in person from Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn, and from Ibn al-Bunn, Ibn Ṣaṣrā, and Ibn al-Zabīdī. He journeyed far and wide, taking much from Ibn al-Qubbayṭī, Ibn Abī al-Fakhār, Ibn al-Khāzin, and al-Kāshgharī. He strove diligently, recording both the elevated and the common chains of transmission, and spent several years in Baghdad pursuing knowledge.
Those who related from him include al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Khabbāz, Muḥammad ibn al-Numayrī, his own son Shaykh Muḥammad ibn al-Muḥibb, and others. He lived forty years.
He died in Jumada II ⦗1⦘, 658 AH, and his children also possessed learning and a devotion to hadith.
270 – al-Nāṣir Dāwūd ibn al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā ibn al-ʿĀdil *
The Sultan, al-Malik al-Nāṣir, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, Abū al-Mafākhir Dāwūd, son of the Sultan al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā ibn al-ʿĀdil.
Birth: Damascus, 603 AH ⦗2⦘.
(1) Al-Husayni, in Sila al-Takmila, al-Dhahabi in Tarikh al-Islam, Ibn Rajab in Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila, and Ibn al-Imad in al-Shadharat all state that he died on 22 Jumada al-Akhira; only al-Husayni adds that the death occurred “on the night of the 22nd,” a detail that does not alter the accepted date.
(*) Principal biographical sources: Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, Dhayl Mirat al-Zaman, vol. 1, pp. 126–184 (a long entry with many of his poems); al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, MS Aya Sofya 3013, vol. 20, fols. 149–153; idem, Duwal al-Islam, 2/121; al-Ibar, 5/229–230; Ibn Wasil, Uyoon al-Tawarikh, 20/168–176; Ibn Hajar, Fawat al-Wafayat, 1/419–428, no. 149; Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 13/214; al-Suyuti, Al-‘Asjad al-Masbuk, p. 643; Ibn Taghri Bardi, Al-Nujum al-Zahira, 7/61–62; Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Hanbali, Shifa al-Qulub fi Manaqib Bani Ayyub, pp. 346–358, no. 75; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 5/275. See also Nazim Rashid Shaykhu, The Life and Works of …, PhD thesis, College of Arts, University of Baghdad, 1981.
(2) In Jumada al-Akhira.