Al-ʿAbbāsī, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badr al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ (d. 963/1556), an Egyptian man of letters and commentator who is mostly known for his magnum opus, the Maʿāhid al-tanṣīṣ. Although he never met al-ʿAbbāsī, al-Khafājī (d. 977/1569) heard a number of reports about him (2/60), and the information he conveys about al-ʿAbbāsī's life is restricted to these. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, the editor of Maʿāhid al-tanṣīṣ, also confined himself to using al-Khafājī's accounts without making any additio…