al-Qadi al-Fadil

Abu Ali Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Qadi al-Ashraf Baha al-Din Ali al-Lakhmi al-Asqalani, born in Ascalon and based in Egypt, known as al-Qadi al-Fadil, with the title Mujir al-Din ¹.

He served Sultan Salah al-Din as head of the chancery. He surpassed earlier writers and had remarkable skill, with a great output. His drafts of letters filled volumes ¹. In Cairo he built a school in the Darb Mulukhiya quarter, which he opened for teaching in Muharram 502 AH ¹.

He was born in Muharram 533 AH in Cairo, and died there suddenly on the night of Wednesday, 7 Rabi' al-Akhir 596 AH. He was buried in his tomb at the foot of al-Muqattam, in the Lesser Cemetery. Ibn Khallikan had visited his grave many times and read the date of his death on the marble around it ¹.