Umm Abd Allah Zaynab bint Abī al-Abbās Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahīm ibn Abd al-Wāhid ibn Ahmad al-Maqdisiyyah. She said: Ajībah bint Abī Bakr ibn Abī Ghālib informed us. She said: The two shaykhs, Abū al-Khayr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Bāghbān al-Muqaddar and Abū al-Faraj Masūd ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Fadl al-Thaqafī, informed us. They said: Abū Amr Abd al-Wahhāb, son of the hadith master Abū Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishāq ibn Mandah, informed us. He said: Abū Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yūh al-Madīnī informed us. He said: Abū al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Abān al-Abdī al-Lunbānī informed us. He said: Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā—Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ubayd ibn Sufyān al-Qurashī—narrated to us.”

Their biographies are as follows:

1—Ahmad ibn Abd al-Qādir ibn Ahmad ibn Maktūm, Tāj al-Dīn Abū Muhammad, the Hanafī grammarian:

He studied under Bahā al-Dīn ibn al-Nahhās, al-Dimyātī, and others. He remained with Abū Hayyān for a long time and also studied under al-Surūjī and others. He then devoted himself to hearing hadith, copying hadith booklets, recording audition certificates, and pursuing knowledge. He heard a great deal from those who had studied under al-Najīb and Ibn Allāq. Concerning this, he said:

Some blamed me for hearing hadith after I had grown old,
Though they themselves were far more deserving of blame.
They said, “An imam versed in many fields
Goes forth morning and evening, listening and seeking?”
I answered their words, marveling at their ignorance:
“When a man makes up for the heights he once missed,
That is credited to resolve—not ascribed to ignorance.”

He had attained distinction in jurisprudence and grammar. He wrote notes on al-Hidāyah, as well as Combining al-Ubāb and al-Muhkam, a work on the Arabic language. He also compiled a substantial work which he entitled “The Exhaustive Compilation of