In the year seven hundred and seventy-seven, he sought hadith, and perfected calligraphy in the manner of al-Dhahabi, until he became the muḥaddith of the Syrian lands and their historian. He authored excellent works, among them "Tawḍīḥ al-Mushtabih" (1) and "Iftitāḥ al-Qārī li-Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī" and "al-Mawlid al-Nabawī," and he wrote ṭibāq works. He participated in the sciences and examined literature until he composed poetry. He died in the year eight hundred and forty-two (2).

9 - Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Mūsā ibn ʿAmīrah — with fatḥa on the ʿayn — ibn Mūsā ibn Ṣāliḥ, al-Shihāb Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Sarrāj, al-Qurashī, al-Makhzūmī, al-Yubnāwī — with ḍamma on the yāʾ and sukūn on the bāʾ, followed by nūn — then al-Makkī, al-Ḥanbalī, resident of Ṣāliḥiyyat Dimashq. He was born in the year eight hundred and seven in Mecca and grew up there. He memorized al-Arbaʿīn al-Nawawiyyah, al-Shāṭibiyyah, Mukhtaṣar al-Khiraqī, al-ʿUmdah in fiqh, al-Minhāj al-Aṣlī, and Alfiyyat Ibn Mālik. More than one person granted him ijāzah. He traveled to Damascus and heard hadith there, in Cairo, Aleppo, and elsewhere. He read, wrote ṭibāq works, distinguished himself, and became proficient in fiqh. Al-Burhān al-Ḥalabī praised him, describing him as the virtuous shaykh, the muḥaddith, and that he was swift in reading and accurate in it. Likewise, Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī and the ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī praised him. He died in the year eight hundred and forty-one (3).

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(1) It has been printed by Muʾassasat al-Risālah in ten volumes, edited by our loyal companion, the virtuous professor Muḥammad Nuʿaym al-ʿArqasūsī, may Allah preserve and protect him.
(2) "al-Majmaʿ al-Muʾassis" by Ibn Ḥajar, 3/285–289.
(3) "al-Ḍawʾ al-Lāmiʿ" by al-Sakhāwī, 1/354.