al-Shihab al-Tusi

Al-Shihab al-Tusi, Abu'l-Fath Muhammad b. Mahmud b. Muhammad b. Shihab al-Din, resident of Egypt and shaykh of the mutakallimun; he taught, gave fatwa and preached, and companions were formed under him; he would ride with the sash and drawn swords while a crier went before him crying "this is the king of scholars," and al-Malik 'Umar b. Shahanshah built him the madrasa known by the money of al-'Izz. ¹

Abu Shama relates that when he came to Baghdad he rode with a banner, drawn swords, the sash on his head and the ornament on his mule's neck, which was denounced; so he went to Egypt, preached, displayed the Ash'ari madhhab, and things occurred between him and the Hanbalis. Greatly revered by elite and commoner alike — tall, awe-inspiring, bold, at whom everyone trembled — on him turned the fatwa of the Shafi'i madhhab; he died in Egypt at seventy-four, in Dhu'l-Qa'da 596. ¹