—for al-Dhahabī from a number of the leading scholars of the time in the very year he was born (1). Among these were, from Damascus: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir Abū al-ʿAbbās al-ʿĀmirī (d. 673 AH, b. 609 AH) (2); Ibn al-Ṣābūnī (d. 680 AH, b. 604 AH) (3); Amīn al-Dīn Ibn ʿAsākir (d. 686 AH, b. 614 AH) (4); and Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Ṣayrafī (d. 678 AH, b. 583 AH) (5).
From Aleppo he secured Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Naṣībī (d. 692 AH, b. 609 AH) (6); from Mecca, Imām Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Ṭabarī, the muḥaddith and mufti of the Sacred Precinct (d. 694 AH, b. 615 AH) (7), as well as others (8).
From Madinah he obtained Kāfūr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭawāshī (9).
It appears that ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār performed the pilgrimage that same year (10), and there he secured several ijāzahs from Mecca and Madinah.
Ibn Ḥajar notes that those who authorised him in that year were “a great multitude” (11), and he writes in the biography of Ibn