Abū Shāma, Abū al-Qāsim Shihāb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm al-Maqdisī (23 Rabīʿ II 599–19 Ramaḍān 665/9 January 1203–13 June 1267), was a Shāfiʿī jurist, traditionist, man of letters and historian from Damascus. Having a large mole (shāma) on his left eyebrow, he became known as Abū Shāma. He was also known as Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (Ibn al-Ṣābūnī, 215). His great-grandfather was Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Ṭūsī. According to Abū Shāma, …