Shams al-Din al-Qayati

Chief judge Shams al-Din al-Qayati of Cairo, a Shafiʿi, chief judge, verifier of his age and scholar of the horizons. He was born around 785 AH. He attended the lessons of al-Siraj al-Bulqini and studied with al-Badr al-Tanbadhi, Izz Ibn Jamaʿa, al-ʿAla al-Bukhari and others. He excelled in jurisprudence, Arabic grammar, the two roots of law, and rhetoric. He heard hadith and transmitted a little of it. He taught at al-Barquqiyya, al-Ashrafiyya, al-Shafiʿi and al-Shaykhuniyya, and held the judgeship of the Shafiʿis in Egypt, in which he served with integrity and restraint. He taught for a time, benefited many people, and wrote a commentary on "al-Minhaj."

He died on the night of Monday, the eighteenth of Muharram 850 AH, in Cairo ¹.