Ibn Batish

Ibn Bāṭīsh,[a] whose given name was Ismāʿīl, was born on 24 June 1179[b] in Mosul (as the nisba al-Mawṣilī indicates) to a humble family.

[8] The only other family member about whom anything is known is Ibn Batish's younger brother Ibrāhīm, who was born in Mosul on 16 March 1189 and died during the siege of Aleppo in January 1260, according to al-Dimyāṭī.

[9] Ibn Bāṭīsh excelled in fiqh (jurisprudence) at the Madrasa al-Niẓāmīyyah of Baghdad.

[2] Ibn Bāṭīsh visited Aleppo in 1205 or 1206 and met the shaykh Abū Hāshim al-Hāshimī.

[c] He returned in November or December 1223 on business with Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Muhājir, who accompanied him as far as Raqqa.