He was the shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs there and a lecturer in several of its madrasas. Possessed of comprehensive knowledge of legal theory and its applications, of the rational sciences, logic, and ḥikma (1), students came to him from distant lands. He lived to the age of eighty-eight and composed graceful poetry, among which is the panegyric he addressed to al-Badr Luʾluʾ, lord of Mosul:

[from the ṭawīl metre]
If the world is adorned by the wealth of its ruler,
then by you the kingdom of the world is ennobled.
May you endure as long as time endures; your decree is obeyed,
your striving is thanked, and your judgment is just. (2)

He was born in 551 AH and died on the fifteenth of Shaʿbān of this year—may Allah Most High have mercy on him.

Abū Shāma (3) said: In this same year there died in Damascus

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid the Sufi (4), who had been a priest and monk in the Church (5) of Mary for seventy years. He embraced Islam only a few days before his death, then passed away an old shaykh after staying a short while in the Simisāṭiyya khanqah, and was buried [in the cemetery of the Sufis; his funeral was thronged, and I attended his burial and the prayer over him—may Allah Most High have mercy on him] (6).

Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Isfandiyār (7) ibn al-Muwaffaq ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Būshanji, the preacher and shaykh of the Arjuwāniyya ribāṭ.

Ibn al-Saʿī said: He was handsome in appearance, fine in character, exceedingly affectionate and humble; eloquent, articulate, fluent, refined of expression, an excellent preacher, pleasant in recitation, sweet in delivery, and he composed good verse. He then quoted from him an ode praising the caliph al-Mustanṣir.

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā (8) ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn ʿAlī (9) ibn Naʿīm, known as Ibn al-Hubayr (10) al-Salāmī.