Ibn al-Jinbali

Al-Nasih ibn al-Hanbali, known as Ibn al-Jinbali, the preacher and jurist; he travelled the lands, hearing at Baghdad from Shahda and al-Saqlatuni, at Isfahan from Abu Musa al-Madini — the last to hear from him in his final illness — and at Mosul from Abu Ahmad al-Haddad; he came to Egypt twice, studied fiqh under Ibn al-Manni and Abu'l-Baqa' al-'Ukbari and read Tha'lab's Fasih from memory. ²

He preached from early youth with complete acceptance at Egypt, Aleppo, Irbil, Medina and Jerusalem, held high standing with the Ayyubid kings of Syria and was present at the conquest of Jerusalem with Salah al-Din; the leadership of the madhhab came to him after Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama, whom he had rivalled in life, and they differed over the fatwa on modern sama' — al-Nasih wrote a refutation of al-Muwaffaq's essay. His books include Asbab al-hadith in volumes, al-Isti'ad biman laqitu min salihi'l-'ibad, al-Injad fi'l-jihad and a history of preachers. ²