Fatima bint Khalil, al-Qababi's Co-Transmitter

Fatima bint Khalil, a shaykha who transmitted reports and lived to an old age, a Hanbali of good lineage. She was the daughter of Shaykh Salah al-Din and the daughter of the brother of the chief judge Nasir al-Din Nasr Allah ibn Ahmad al-Hanbali. She shared with Shaykh Zayn al-Din al-Qababi in most of his transmissions, and Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hajar mentioned her in the book of shaykhs compiled by al-Qababi, which he called "al-Mashyakha al-Basima" (The Smiling Book of Shaykhs). She died at the end of Friday, the first of Jumada I, in Cairo. She was prayed over at Bab al-Nasr and buried there ¹.