The Shaykh was an imam, ʿālim (scholar), and the last link of the righteous predecessors (salaf-i ṣāliḥīn). His kunyah was Abū Isḥāq. He bore the laqab Rāḍiyuddīn. His lineage is as follows: Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭābarī al-Malikī. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab. He served as an imam at the Maqām Ibrāhīm for more than fifty years. He listened to ḥadīth from the shuyūkh (shaykhs) of his own town and from the ʿulamāʾ who came there. He did not undertake travel to any other place.
For a long time, he issued fatwās to people. He used to say that he had abridged al-Bayḡāwī's work Sharḥ al-Sunnah. He passed away in Mecca on a Saturday afternoon, the eighth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal. He was buried the next day. He was among the leading ʿulamāʾ.