Husam b. Gazzī b. Yunus Imad al-Din Abu'l-Manāqib al-Mahallī. He was Egyptian. Later, he settled in Damascus. He was a virtuous, righteous, and jurist scholar of the Shāfiʿī school. He gave excellent lectures. He had pleasant poetry. Abu Shāma said about him: "His biography is beautifully recounted in Muʿjam al-Qawsī. He passed away on the tenth of the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir this year and was buried in the cemetery of the Sufis."
Al-Sibt also said: "Husam resided in the Amīniyya madrasa. He would not eat anything that was given to him—whether by the sultan or by others. When he attended a banquet, he would take out what he had hidden in his sleeve and eat that. He always kept 1,000 dinars in his belt." According to narration, he himself said: "One night, al-Malik al-ʿĀdil gifted me a neck scarf and dressed me in it. As I left his presence and was heading home, there was a man walking ahead of me, thinking I was the judge. When I reached the side of Sayf's house at Bāb al-Barī, I took off the scarf, folded it, and put it into my sleeve. I also slowed my pace. When the man ahead of me turned around, he saw no one. When he saw only me, he said, 'Where did the judge go?' I indicated that he had gone toward the Nūriyya quarter and said, 'He probably went home.' As the man began to hurry toward the Nūriyya quarter, I ran to the Amīniyya madrasa and thus escaped him."
Ibn Saʿī said: "Husam b. Gazzī was born in the year 560 of the Hijra. After his death, he left behind a great deal of wealth. His agnates inherited that wealth. He knew well the news, history, and the wars of people. He was also a devout and God-conscious (muttaqī) person."
Ibn Saʿī has transmitted some of his poems. As follows:
"They said to me: The hair on the cheeks of the beloved you are in love with is a disgrace and a shame."
I say: This is neither a fault nor a shame for him. The redness of the cheek has been burned by the mole that resembles amber. It is from that smoke that the face has reddened."
This poem also belongs to Husam:
"My longing for you is certainly less than your longing for me.
But even if this longing is little, it must be expressed.
Because I do not reside in your heart.
Your heart has lost me.
But you are always present in my heart."