Shams al-Din al-Barmawi

Shams al-Din al-Barmawi, a Shafiʿi scholar, born in the middle of Dhu al-Qaʿda 763 AH. He studied jurisprudence while still young. Taj al-Din ibn al-Gharabil said of him that he was one of the great imams, a sea that murky water could not disturb, unique in his age, and that he had never seen anyone more skilled than him in the many branches of learning, together with his humility. He wrote a good commentary on al-Bukhari, a work titled "Inshirah al-Muhimmat," and a verse treatise on the principles of jurisprudence, of which he wrote a full commentary of about two volumes. He also wrote a fine commentary on Ibn Malik's "Lamiyya," and he abridged the biography of the Prophet ﷺ. One of the wonders of his time was that he lived for a year in Mecca, then came to Cairo, where he was appointed chief judge of the sultanate's business, and then went to Jerusalem, where he lived weakened by an ulcer. He died there on Thursday, the eighteenth of Jumada, and was buried in the tomb of Umm Allah ʿUjad near the shaykh ʿAbd Allah al-Qurashi ¹.