Shams al-Din Ibn al-Qiyal

Shams al-Din Muhammad b. Ahmad b. 'Abdallah, famed as Ibn al-Qiyal the Hanbali; he rose in the trade till he was a merchant, then left it for the pursuit of hadith — taking from Mawla Muwaffaq al-Din al-Misri and reading many books under Shaykh Nur al-Din 'Ali al-Maqdisi the Hanbali; he taught hadith at the Hammadiyya by the Umayyad Mosque's nawba and elsewhere, caring for hadith and devoting himself to it until he excelled and ordered; he died in 893. ¹