From the ʿUmariyya School(1), located in Damascus at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn.

What remains of it is the first, second, and third parts, two leaves from the fourth, and the fifth, sixth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth parts, as well as the eighteenth and twenty-first. The total number of hadiths in these parts is (2366) hadiths out of the original (3956) hadiths, constituting approximately two-thirds of the book. As for the first part, it contains the first hadith of the Jāmiʿ up to
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= who died in the year three and fifty and four hundred [AH 453]. The author of "Munādamat al-Aṭlāl" said, p. 277: Then it was converted into a school, and around the year one thousand one hundred [AH] Ahmad ibn ʿAlī al-Munayyir took up residence in one of its rooms, and he later became a teacher there, until the teaching position at the ʿĀdiliyya al-Kubrā was assigned to him, so he moved to it and taught there. Then the superintendency of it and of the ʿUmariyya came to him, and the two superintendencies have continued to pass down through his descendants to this very day.

(1) In the year (551), a group of the Banū Qudāma al-Maqādisa sought refuge in Damascus after being forced to flee Jerusalem following the Crusaders' seizure of it. They settled for two years at the Mosque of Abū Ṣāliḥ outside the eastern gate, then moved from it to the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn, near the Yazīd River. There they built for themselves a house containing a great number of rooms, which was called Dayr al-Ḥanābila. Then they began constructing the first school on the mountain, namely the ʿUmariyya School, which was founded by Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maqdisī al-Jammāʿīlī al-Ḥanbalī, who died in the year (607) AH. It was at the height of activity and prosperity. Then construction continued around it, and this place later became known as al-Ṣāliḥiyya. This school had a library of books with no equal, but the hands of thieves played with it, and much was taken from it. Then what remained of it—which was negligible compared to what it had held—was transferred to the Ẓāhiriyya Library. To this very day, its ruins remain, drawing forth the hidden tears of the eyes, draining the drops of the hearts, and reminding of a past rich with the marvels of the ancestors.