جمال الدين ابن فضلان

Jamal al-Din Abu'l-Qasim Yahya ibn 'Ali ibn al-Fadl, the Baghdadi polymath and shaykh of its Shafi'is, known as Ibn Fadlan; born 515; he took fiqh at Baghdad from Abu Mansur Ibn al-Razzaz and at Nishapur from Muhammad ibn Yahya, al-Ghazali's pupil; he heard many, multitudes profited from him, his name grew famous and his renown flew; he was an imam in fiqh, usul, khilaf and disputation — pointed out in all of it — and he and al-Mujir al-Baghdadi held debates and salons in which each belaboured the other; he died in Sha'ban 595. ¹