Ibn Nun al-Khwarazmi 'al-Mu'id'

Ibn Nun al-Khwarazmi al-Hanafi, known as al-Muʿid, a resident of Mecca and imam of the Hanafi station there. He stayed in Mecca for more than forty years. He heard hadith, studied jurisprudence, excelled, issued legal opinions and taught. He was appointed deputy teacher (muʿid) of the Hanafi lesson for the atabeg Yalbugha al-ʿUmari in Mecca, and so became known as al-Muʿid. He was skilled in jurisprudence, the principles of law and Arabic, and for several years he presided over teaching in the Sacred Mosque. People benefited from him, along with his piety and integrity.

He died in Mecca at the end of Jumada I, past the age of eighty ¹.