Shams al-Din al-'Ulaymi

Qadi al-qudat Shams al-Din al-'Ulaymi, the Hanbali of Jerusalem, of the progeny of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him); born at Ramla in 807 and raised there, he went to Safad, lived there, memorised the Qur'an in 'Asim's transmission and was licensed in it, then returned to Ramla and memorised al-Khiraqi in Ahmad's madhhab — the only Hanbali among his Shafi'i ancestors; he strove, travelled to Syria, Egypt and Jerusalem, studied fiqh under Shaykh Yusuf al-Mardawi, excelled in the school, read the Bukhari repeatedly and the Shifa likewise, composed sermons and was a brilliant Arabic stylist and eloquent preacher. ²

He held the qada' of Ramla independently — no Hanbali before him is known to have held it — then the qada' of Jerusalem for a long time, with the qada' of Hebron added; then he held Ramla again for fifty-nine days until the plague entered and he died of it on Tuesday 4 Dhu'l-Qa'da 872. ²