Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ghanim al-Maqdisi

علي بن محمد ابن غانم المقدسي

Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Khalil al-Khazraji, Nur al-Din, known as Ibn Ghanim al-Maqdisi by origin and of Cairo, head of the Hanafis of his age. He studied with Ibn al-Najjar al-Hanbali, Ibn al-Shalabi, Nasir al-Din al-Tablawi, al-Laqani the Maliki, Abu al-Hasan al-Bakri and al-Shihab al-Ramli, and al-Shihabani al-Ghunaymi and al-Khafaji studied under him. He issued legal opinions all his life and held the imamate and teaching of the Ashrafiyya. His works include a commentary on Kanz al-daqa'iq, Awdah ramz 'ala nazm al-kanz, a commentary on al-Ashbah wa-al-naza'ir, al-Fa'iq, and Bughyat al-murtad. The book gives 1004 AH as his death year. ¹