Izz al-Din al-Qaylawi

Izz al-Din ʿAbd al-Salam ibn Ahmad al-Qaylawi, a Hanafi imam and scholar who lived in Cairo. He was born around 780 AH on the east side of Baghdad. He memorised books of jurisprudence, the principles of law, grammar and rhetoric, and heard al-Bukhari from Ibn al-Jardi. He then became a Hanafi and took the principles of law, grammar, medicine and the law of inheritance from the shaykhs of Baghdad. He later travelled to the lands of the Persians after God saved him from the great trial of Timur Lang. He stayed with Diya al-Din al-Harawi, the Hanafi, then travelled to Arzinjan in Rum, where he took Sufism from Shaykh Bar ʿAli al-Sivasi. He then entered Syria, Aleppo and Jerusalem, where he met Shihab al-Din Ibn al-Haym, and then went to Cairo, where he took hadith from al-Wali al-ʿIraqi and taught. People attended his lessons constantly and benefited from him greatly.

He was a good and ascetic man who preferred to keep away from people, to live with chastity and to support himself by farming. He never gained a share of the rulers of his time. He had great discipline and patience in bearing the affairs of people and their harshness, and he did not concern himself with writing books. He died in Cairo in Ramadan 859 AH, having passed eighty ¹.