al-Dalji al-'Uthmani

Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Dalji al-'Uthmani, the Shafi'i; born 860 at Dalja where he memorised the Qur'an, then entered Cairo and read al-Tanbih and more under its scholars, then travelled to Damascus and stayed some thirty years, studying under al-Burhan al-Biqa'i, the hafiz Burhan al-Din al-Naji, al-Qutb al-Khaydari, the qadi Nasir al-Din Ibn Zurayq al-Hutili and the imam-muhaddith Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi. ¹

He travelled to the land of Rum and met its sultan Abu Yazid, made the hajj from Syria, then returned to Cairo. He wrote commentaries on the Khazrajiyya, on al-Nawawi's Forty, on al-Qadi 'Iyad's al-Shifa and on al-Munfarija; he abridged al-Minhaj and al-Maqasid under the title Maqasid al-maqasid and commented on it; a company took from him including al-Najm al-Ghayti. He died at Cairo. ¹