By the time she was six years old, she had received the written permission for the transmission of knowledge from scholars from Aleppo, Alexandria, Cairo, Harran, and al-Sham.
Between the ages of 6 and 12, she visited many assemblies held by the scholars of her time and received the exclusive right for transmission of the works she had heard.
It is thought that it may have been her father, Ahmad Kamāl al-Dīn al Maqdisī, who may have not been mentioned due to him never acquiring the reputation of religious scholar.
The Mu’jam al-Samā’āt al-Dimashqiyya, where Damascene certificates were cataloged, names Zaynab bint al-Kamāl as a presiding authority of a majlis al-sama thirty-four times.
[2] It is worth mentioning that Zaynab bint al- Kamāl lived in al-Salihiyya, a suburb of Damascus.