Izz al-Din Ibn al-Furat

The judge Izz al-Din Ibn al-Furat, a Hanafi, transmitter of hadith with chains, long-lived, a traveller in search of knowledge, and historian. He grew up in Medina and memorised the Qur'an, reciting it in the seven readings under the two shaykhs ʿAbd Allah al-Shanini and Yahya al-Tilsani, the blind. From his father, al-Jalal, he took grammar, and from his father and others he took jurisprudence. He benefited from his brother. He heard from Ibn Siddiq the completion of al-Bukhari's Sahih, and from his father, al-Zayn al-ʿIraqi, and from al-Maraghi, ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Ansari the judge of Medina, al-Burhan Ibn Farhun, Ibn al-Jazari and Nasir al-Din Ibn Salih. He read with al-Jamal al-Asyuti, and Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) Ibn al-Dhahabi, al-Tanukhi, al-Balqini, Ibn al-Mulaqqin and Abu ʿAbd Allah Ibn Marzuq the elder, among others, granted him licences. He performed the pilgrimage more than once and excelled in Arabic. He pursued literature, collected a poetry divan of his own, and composed several letters in a way that set him apart. He taught and transmitted al-Bukhari and other works, and students heard from him. Al-Biqaʿi met him and took from him. He was an accomplished, eloquent man, a poet and a prose writer, prudent and pleasant company, full of rare anecdotes and wit, and generous beyond measure ¹.