Zaynab bint al-Kamal was born in 646 [AH]. In [6]48, she was brought to Hablba bint Abi ‘Umar. She heard [hadltb] from Muhammad b. ‘Abd alHadi, Ibrahim b. Khalil, and Khatib Marda.... Al-Dhahabi said, “[S]he transmitted a great deal [of religious knowledge]. Students would crowd around her and read lengthy books to her. She was kind in her manners, generous in her spirit; it may well be that they had her listen to their readings for most of the day... She was afflicted with opthalmia in her youth and never married. She died on 19th Jumada al-UIa in the year 740, having passed 90 years of age. Great numbers of people turned out for her funeral. She had a camel-load of hadltb [compilations]. She was the last in the world to transmit from Sibt al-Silafl and other scholars by virtue of her ijdzas [i.e., certificates] from them.

Ibn Hajar al-‘AsqalanI (d. 852/1449) 2

Ahmad b. Hanbal, Musnad (Beirut: al-Maktab al-Islaml, 1993), 3:660-61.

Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalanl, al-Durar al-Kamina ft A ‘yan al-Mi 'a al-Thamina (Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Hadltha, 1966), 2:209-10. Her full name is given at the beginning of this entry as Zaynab bint Ahmad b. ‘Abd al-Rahlm b. ‘Abd al-Wahid b. Ahmad al-Maqdisiyya. I have shortened Ibn