Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi

Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi, the imam, scholar, hafiz, authority, muhaddith of Syria and shaykh of the Sunna; Ibn Rajab said it is told he wrote under more than five hundred shaykhs, and Ibn al-Najjar said: I wrote under him at Baghdad, Nishapur and Damascus — and he is a hafiz. He was the resort in jarh and ta'dil, who composed, authenticated, graded lenient and severe. ¹

Among his works the al-Ahadith al-mukhtara, drawn from his own hearings — he wrote ninety parts of it. ¹