Shams al-Din al-Tabbakh the Meccan sharif

Shams al-Din Abu al-Khayr Muhammad ibn Sharaf Muhammad al-Sharif al-Hasani, born and resident in Mecca, known as al-Tabbakh. He was born in Mecca in Rajab 781 AH and taught the Qur'an there to several people. He took hadith from al-Jalal al-Bulqini and al-Kamal al-Fayyumi, and al-Majd Ibn al-Jazari and the hafiz Hamza al-Maqdisi, among others, gave him a licence. He taught in the post of his shaykh and was born in Medina. He devoted himself to teaching and attended the sessions of legal opinion. He recited the readings of the Qur'an in both directions several times, and he was unique in Mecca in his time. He sat in the judicial council with Chief Judge Zakariyya, the hafiz Majd al-Din Ibn Zahira and others for about thirty years, as a jurist and teacher, and no one sat in his place.

He used to recite the prayers upon the Prophet about one hundred times a day for thirty years. He was the teacher of the grandfather of the judge Jalal al-Din Ibn al-Manazi, and among the first to practise Sufism through him was Shaykh Abu Tahir al-Mahawi. He died on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of Jumada I, 863 AH ¹.