His teachers

Among the most prominent of his shaykhs are the Imām, the renewer of the religion, Majd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Muʾayyadī; and the Sayyid, the erudite scholar, the mujtahid, the ḥujjah, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAjrī; and also the Sayyid, the erudite scholar, the ḥujjah, the leader of guidance, and the reformer of the land and the servants, al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā al-Muṭahhar.

He drank from the sweetness of their pure spring, and took from the radiance of their lights, until he excelled in all the religious sciences, and was distinguished by his understanding of the Qurʾān and the derivation of the proof, and the extraction of evidences in fiqh, so he became a marjaʿ in the subtle issues and the intricate dilemmas, whether in fiqh, or naḥw, or ṣarf, or balāghah, until the scholars of his age—among his shaykhs, his peers, and his students—testified for him, and relied upon his fatwā in the prime of his youth of his youth.