; the mentor of Shaykh al-Islam Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī al-Harawī, as well as Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣābūnī—himself styled Shaykh al-Islam—and Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr al-Namirī, the leading authority of the Maghrib, along with many others.