ابن الزاغوني

Shaykh of the Hanbalis and their preacher, Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali ibn 'Ubaydallah al-Zaghuni; born in Jumada al-Ula 455, he read the Qur'an in the canonical readings, sought hadith himself and read fiqh under Judge Ya'qub al-Barzanji; exact in many sciences — usul, furu', preaching and hadith — he wrote in them all: the Iqna', the Wadih, the Great Khilaf, the Mufradat in two volumes, the Takhlis on inheritance, the Idah in usul al-din, Ghurar al-bayan in usul al-fiqh, a diwan of sermons, an annalistic history, and a pilgrimage manual. ²

Ibn al-Jawzi said "I kept his company a long while — he had a circle at al-Mansur where he debated on Friday then preached," and Ibn Nasir called him the jurist of the age; he died on Sunday 16 Muharram 527 and was buried in Imam Ahmad's cemetery. ²