, ʿIzz al-Dīn Abu ’l-Nad̲j̲ā al-Sanhūrī al-Miṣrī, a Mālikī jurisconsult and ḥadīt̲h̲ expert. He came to head the Mālikī school of Cairo, whither he migrated from Sanhūr at the age of twenty-one (probably around 966/1558-9). He is particularly known for his mastery of ḥadīt̲h̲, having dictated the "Six Books", and attracted numerous well-known scholars from Syria and the Hid̲j̲āz. He is said to have written several works. The best known of these are his commentary on the Muk̲h̲taṣar of al-Ḵh̲alīl on fiḳh (extant) and, oddly, an epistle reportedly entitled Faḍāʾil laylat al-niṣf min s…