Mujir al-Din's father, Muhammad ibn 'Adb al-Rahman, was a scholar, and he instructed his son in the religious sciences. His formal education began early, and by the age of six, Mujir al-Din was successfully tested on his knowledge of Arabic grammar by another of his instructors, Taqi al-Din al-Qarqashandi, a
Shafi'i sheikh, with whom he also studied the
hadiths. At ten years old, he studied
Quranic recitation with a
Hanafi faqih (one who has received the Islamic equivalent of a
Master of Law). He attended Islamic jurisprudence classes given by Kamal al-Din al-Maqdisi, a prominent Shafi'i scholar and
qadi, at
al-Madrasa as-Salahiyya, the most prestigious college in the city, and at
Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Al-Maqdisi granted Mujir al-Din an
ijaza when he was thirteen years old. In his youth in Jerusalem, he also studied hadith with two other Hanafi scholars (ibn Qamuwwa, a
faqih, and the
sheikh Shams al-Din al-Ghazzi al-Maqdisi), studying grammar and Hanbali
fiqh with a
Maliki scholar (the chief judge Nur al-Din al-Misri). When he was approximately eighteen years old, he left for
Cairo, where he pursued his studies under the tutelage of Muhammad al-Sa'di, a
qadi, for about ten years, returning to Jerusalem in 1484. ==Career==