Kamal al-Din al-Jini

The judge Kamal al-Din Muhammad al-Jini of Hama, then of Cairo, a Shafiʿi. He was the foremost of the notables and the secretary of secrets in Egypt. He was born in Hama in Dhu al-Hijja 796 AH, memorised the Qur'an, and read jurisprudence with the hafiz Burhan al-Din al-Halabi, known as al-Quff. He then came to Egypt and studied jurisprudence with al-Wali al-ʿIraqi and Izz Ibn Jamaʿa, learned grammar from Shaykh Yahya al-Sujaysi, and worked hard until he excelled in what is stated and in what is implied. He had the upper hand in prose and verse. He was appointed chief judge of Damascus and performed the pilgrimage.

Al-Manhal (al-Manhal al-Safi) says of him: "He was the greatest man we have seen in this age." He died in Cairo on Sunday, the sixteenth of Safar 856 AH ¹.