Shams al-Din al-Ja'fari al-Tabrizi, qadi of Damascus

The chief judge Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abd al-Awwal, sayyid al-Sharif al-Husayni al-Ja'fari al-Tabrizi, first Shafi'i and then Hanafi, head of Tabriz and one of the clients of the Rumi scholars, known as Shishli Amir. He studied with his father and with Mawlana Muhammad al-Barlisi al-Shafi'i, and during his father's lifetime he gave the general lesson in the year 916. Then he went to the lands of Rum and rose through its madrasas until he reached one of the eight. ¹.

He then held the judgeship of Aleppo at the end of 949 AH and then the judgeship of Damascus, entering it in Rabi' al-Thani 952. He agreed with Qutb ibn Sultan and Shaykh Yunus al-'Aythawi that coffee is forbidden. He proclaimed its nullity, then presented its nullity to Sultan Suleiman, whose order to annul it came in Shawwal 953, and the proclamation was made widely known. ¹.

He was an eloquent scholar with fine handwriting. He had two locks of hair which he dyed black, together with his beard. His conduct was praised and he had special dignity. He died in Constantinople. ¹.