Sa'd al-Din ibn 'Iraq

Sa'd al-Din Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Iraq, the jurist and Qur'an reader, a Shami and Hijazi Shafi'i. According to his father, as he recorded in the Iraqi ship, he was born in 907 AH on the coast of Beirut. He memorised the Qur'an by the age of five, in two years. He stayed with his father for six years, reading one full recitation every Friday, and God's blessing came upon him, so that he memorised many books in various disciplines. ².

He took the readings from the pupil of his father, Shaykh Ahmad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, preacher of the village of Majdal Mughush. He had a firm standing in jurisprudence, hadith and the readings, good participation in other fields, and an interest in the inheritance rules, arithmetic and astronomy, and a power in composing outstanding verse. He had calm and dignity, but he was severely deaf. He held the preaching post of the al-Niri mosque, and on his journey to Rum he entered Damascus and Aleppo. Ibn Tulun said that he had told him that Sa'd al-Din composed a commentary on Sahih Muslim following the arrangement of al-Qastallani's commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, and began a commentary on al-Ubab in Shafi'i jurisprudence. ¹.

On his return from Rum, he left Damascus to visit Jerusalem on Thursday, the third of Jumada al-Akhira 949 AH. He recorded that during his stay in Damascus he used to visit the grave of Ibn al-Arabi and spend the night there, and that he made the drinking of coffee known in Damascus, so that its shops multiplied from that day. It is remarkable that his father had denounced it, and ruined its house in Mecca. He died in the illuminated city of Medina, where he was its preacher and imam, in 963 AH. ³.