كمال الدين أبو المناقب الخضيري

Kamal al-Din Abu al-Manaqib Abu Bakr al-Khudayri al-Asyuti al-Shafi'i, a scholar of the ninth century AH, who died in 855 AH. ¹

He was born at the beginning of the century in Asyut, and studied there. He then came to Cairo after 820 AH and kept company with the shaykhs of his age. Ibn al-Imad says that he excelled in jurisprudence, the two foundations of law, the readings, arithmetic, grammar, morphology, the meanings and rhetoric, and logic. ¹

He devoted himself to teaching and giving legal opinions, had a long hand in composition, and wrote fine calligraphy. Among his works are a two-volume gloss on the commentary on the Alfiyya by Ibn al-Musannif, a book on the readings, a gloss on al-Adud, a commentary on al-Irshad of Ibn al-Muqri, and a book on the craft of the signed decree (tawqi'). ¹

Al-Zahir Jaqmaq once appointed him chief judge of Egypt, and he declined. Among his pupils were Fakhr al-Din al-Maqdisi, Burhan al-Din ibn Zahira the judge of Mecca, and Nur al-Din ibn Abi al-Yaman. He died on the night of Monday, the fifth of Safar 855 AH, and was buried in al-Qarafa. ¹