ابن قدامة
He was a relative of Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi, as his mother and Diya al-Din al-Maqdisis grandmother were sisters.He had three sons named Muhammad, Abdullah and Abdur-Rahman, all of which became prominent noble scholars. The great scholar, Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi is the maternal cousin of Abdul-Ghani, and Ibn Qudāmah described his association with Abdul-Ghani as: