Najm al-Din al-Badrai

Al-Badra'i, the scholar-fara'idi; he taught at the Nizamiyya, conducted chancery correspondence more than once, and transmitted at Aleppo, Damascus, Egypt and Baghdad; he built at Damascus the great madrasa named for him, the Badra'iyya. ¹

Al-Dhahabi said he was "a jurist-scholar, pious, a dignitary, reserved, of noble worth and abundant sanctity, humble, gentle-natured, approachable"; he held Baghdad's judgeship reluctantly and died fifteen days later in Dhu'l-Qa'da — God spared him the Tatars' calamity. Al-Suyuti: of Badraya, a village in Wasit's territory. ¹