Al-Safadi

His Teachers

• Al-Ḥāfīz Fatḥ al-Dīn ibn Sayyid al-Nās, with whom he studied literature in Cairo.
• Ibn al-Nabatah Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Farqī al-Maṣrī
• Abū Hayyan al-Gharnatī ; with whom he studied grammar and philology.
• Maḥmūd ibn Salmān Ibn Fahd, author of and narrated much of his poetry.
• Judge Badr al-Dīn ibn Jamāt, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sa’d al-Kattanī.
• Imam Taqi al-Din al-Subki
• The Ḥadīth Abū Al-Nūn Yūnus ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dabusi
• Hafiz Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi, and studied by the Ḥadīth in Dar al-Hadith Ashrafieh in Damascus.
• Al-Ḥafiz Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Uthman al-Dhahabī ; with whom he studied the Hadith and history.

  Books

• Ikhtirāʿ al-Khurāʿ ; on scholastic pedantry, a satirical work in the tradition of Arabic parodies, it is one of his most famous works.
• Kitab al-Wafi bi'l-Wafayat ; biographical dictionary of notable people.
• Nakt al-Humyān fī Nukat al-Umyān, biographies of notable blind people, with a section on the causes of blindness.
• Al-Ghayth al-Musajam fi Sharh Lamiyyat-Ajam ; an encyclopedic commentary on Togharayi's Lamiyyat al-Ajam.