أبو الفتح ابن الصائغ الحراني

The imam Abu'l-Fath Ibn al-Sa'igh Ahmad b. Abi'l-Wafa' al-Baghdadi, the Hanbali jurist resident at Harran; born at Baghdad in 408, he attached himself to Abu'l-Khattab al-Kalwadhani, served him, studied fiqh under him and heard from him and Ibn Bayyan, travelled to Aleppo and settled, then made Harran home till death — its mufti and teacher, whose fiqh was read under him by a company including Shaykh Fakhr al-Din Ibn Taymiyya, and from whom a company heard including Ibn 'Abdus, al-'Imad al-Maqdisi and Abu'l-Hasan Ibn al-Qati'i who transmitted him in his Tarikh; his biography falls under 575. ¹