—and of al-Shāfiʿī as well. He championed the jurisprudence of the Prophet’s Household, authored a treatise on the points of disagreement among the scholars, and his books are sizeable, expansive works.

He enjoyed great prestige and was held in high esteem; among his offspring were judges and notable officials.

He died—deprived of Allah’s good pleasure—in Cairo in Rajab 363 AH. Thereafter his son ʿAlī assumed the judiciary of the dominions (1).

Muḥammad, Abū Ḥanīfa’s father, died in Kairouan in 351 AH at the age of one hundred and four. He is counted among the exceptionally intelligent (2).

107 – Ibn al-Khashshāb, Abū al-Faraj Aḥmad b. al-Qāsim*

The peerless ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Faraj Aḥmad b. al-Qāsim b. ʿUbayd Allah b. Mahdī al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn al-Khashshāb, who resided in the frontier city of Tarsus.

He narrated in Damascus and elsewhere from Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Bāghandī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr, ʿAbd Allah b. Isḥāq al-Madāʾinī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, Muḥammad b. al-Rabīʿ al-Jīzī, and their cohort.

Among those who transmitted from him were Tammām al-Rāzī, Baqāʾ al-Khawlānī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Maydānī, Makkī b. al-Ghamr, Muḥammad b. ʿAwf al-Muzanī, and others.

ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī, the vizier, also received authorisation (ijāza) from him.