Zayn al-Din Ibn al-Adami, the preacher

Zayn al-Din Ibn al-Adami, the Hamawi preacher; he took up the composing of homilies, excelled, became renowned and prospered; he came to Cairo after the Tanakiyya and settled there till death — meanwhile holding the Aqsa Mosque's preaching post, then was dismissed yet continued his homilies and speaking in appointed sessions, his name famous, his renown flying far. ²

He mostly read only from a book, with a sweet melody and true delivery, and recited Sahih al-Bukhari through Ramadan in several places — until he died suddenly on the second of Dhu'l-Qa'da 848, having preached at two places on the day he died, past eighty years old. ²