'Ala' al-Din al-Qalqashandi

ʿAlaʾ al-Din Abu al-Futuh ʿAli ibn Ahmad al-Qalqashandi, a Shafiʿi of the Quraysh. He was born in Cairo in Dhu al-Hijja 778 AH and grew up there. He memorised the Qur'an and several standard texts of his school, and studied jurisprudence with the scholars of his age, among them al-Siraj al-Bulqini and his son Jalal al-Din, Izz Ibn Jamaʿa and Siraj al-Din Ibn al-Mulaqqin. He took hadith from al-Zayn al-ʿIraqi and al-Nur al-Haythami. He excelled in jurisprudence, the principles of law, Arabic, rhetoric, eloquence and the readings of the Qur'an. He took up issuing legal opinions and teaching while still under twenty years of age, and many students benefited from him, and a number of notables studied jurisprudence under him. He was asked to take up the judgeship of Damascus and refused it, and he was several times nominated for the chief judgeship in Egypt.

He died on the first day of 856 AH ¹.