Nasir al-Din al-Barinbari

Nasir al-Din al-Barinbari, a Shafiʿi grammarian, whose nisba comes from Barinbar, a village near Damietta. Al-Suyuti says he was born shortly before 770 AH and came to Cairo, where he became well known and excelled in jurisprudence, Arabic, arithmetic, prosody and other fields. He taught at al-Azhar without pay, and he taught, issued legal opinions, gave instruction and preached for a time. In al-Jamaliyya he acted as deputy for a grandson of Shaykh Wali al-Din al-ʿIraqi, before Shaykh Shams al-Din al-Barmawi took it from him. He was struck by paralysis that disabled half his body, and he remained ailing until he died on the night of Sunday, the eleventh of Rabiʿ I 832 AH ¹.