"Al-Mu'jam al-Mukhtaṣṣ" (391) regarding the muḥaddith, the scholar, the devout worshiper, the righteous one. Ibn Ḥajar said in "Al-Durar al-Kāminah" 1/455: He was religious, virtuous, and excellent in conversation. Our teacher, Shaykh Sirāj al-Dīn Ibn al-Mulaqqin, studied under him. Ibn Ḥajar left blank the date of his death, and Ibn Fahd mentioned him in "Laḥẓ al-Alḥāẓ" among the deaths of the year (749 AH).

On the first folio of it is the chain of transmission of the book: We were informed by the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Dhahabī, who said: We were informed by the judge Tāj al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAlwān al-Baʿlabakkī, who said: We were informed by the imam Muwaffaq al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī … with the remainder of the chain of transmission previously mentioned in copy (M).

As for al-Dhahabī, he is the ḥāfiẓ, the historian of Islam, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Dhahabī, author of "Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ," "Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ," "Tārīkh al-Islām," "Al-ʿIbar," and others, who died in the year (748), may Allah have mercy on him.

His teacher is Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAlwān al-Baʿlabakkī al-Shāfiʿī, the judge, the imam, the jurist, the scholar, the versatile. He was good, righteous, humble, and ascetic. Al-Dhahabī said in "Muʿjam al-Shuyūkh" 1/352: I narrated extensively from him, and what an excellent teacher he was. He was born in the year (603) and died in the year (696), may Allah have mercy on him. See also "Shadharāt al-Dhahab" 5/435.

As for Ibn Qudāmah and those above him, their biographies have already been mentioned in the description of copy (M).