Ibn Ni'ma, musnid al-Sham

Ibn Ni'ma, musnid of Syria, its jurist and muhaddith, the Hanbali copyist; he heard Yahya al-Thaqafi, Ibn Saqda, Ibn al-Muwazini and 'Abd al-Rahman al-Khiraqi, being unique in the world in transmitting from them, and heard at Harran from its khatib Shaykh Fakhr al-Din Ibn Taymiyya; he compiled his own mashyakha and a history. ²

A fast and handsome scribe who wrote two or three quires a day up to nine, he copied Ibn 'Asakir's Tarikh Dimashq twice and al-Muwaffaq's Mughni several times, and said he had written two thousand volumes with his own hand; he transmitted for some fifty-five years, the highest isnad ended with him and people travelled to him from every quarter; the earlier huffaz — al-Diya', al-Zaki al-Barzali, 'Umar ibn al-Hajib — heard from him, and al-Nawawi, Shams al-Din ibn Abi 'Umar, Ibn Daqiq al-'Id, Ibn Taymiyya and others transmitted from him. ²