al-Shams al-Bukhari al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali

Shams al-Din Abu'l-'Abbas Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Wahid ibn Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Isma'il ibn Mansur al-Sa'di al-Maqdisi then of Damascus, known as al-Bukhari; brother of the hafiz Diya' al-Din Muhammad and father of al-Fakhr 'Ali, musnid of his age — born in the last ten days of Shawwal 564 on the Mountain, he heard at Damascus from Abu'l-Ma'ali ibn Sabir and others, at Baghdad from Ibn al-Jawzi and his generation, and at Nishapur and Wasit from many; he studied the Hanbali madhhab and excelled, spent a period working on legal divergence under al-Radi al-Naysaburi — hence the name al-Bukhari — then returned to Syria and lived at Homs, where al-Mundhiri says he was the first to hold the judgeship. ²

Ibn al-Dabithi called him "imam, scholar, mufti, debater — dignified and grave, of vast memorisation, a proof, truthful, of complete manliness; the Maqdisis had none more sound"; he died on Thursday night, 5 Jumada al-Akhira 623. ²