Fakhr al-Din ibn Taymiyya

Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abi'l-Qasim al-Khidr, known as Ibn Shumba al-Harrani, styled Fakhr al-Din Ibn Taymiyya; the Hanbali preacher and jurist, shaykh and khatib of Harran, and father of Shaykh al-Islam Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya. Singular in his town for learning, he studied fiqh at Baghdad under Abu'l-Fath ibn al-Manni and heard hadith from Shahda bint al-Ibri, Ibn al-Muqarrib and Ibn al-Batti; born late Sha'ban 542 per the Shadharat, he read the Qur'an to his father at about ten. ^{1 2}

He taught, preached and composed, delivering tafsir every morning at Harran's mosque until he had expounded the whole Qur'an five times; his works include the Great Tafsir in over thirty volumes, three treatises in the madhhab, the Mawdih on inheritance and a celebrated diwan of sermons, and he exchanged letters with al-Muwaffaq Ibn Qudama on the eternity of heretics in Hell. He died at Harran on Thursday 10 Safar 621 — his son 'Abd al-Ghani said he died in prayer. ³