Farghān, who said: Abū al-Fath ibn Buraydah … and he related several reports.

251 – Ibn al-Saqqāʾ, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Isfarāyinī
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, accomplished and reliable scholar, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Isfarāyinī, a direct student of the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAwānah. He travelled widely in pursuit of knowledge.

He transmitted from Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, Abū Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid, Muḥammad ibn Zabbān al-Miṣrī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jawṣā, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubashshir, Abū ʿAwānah al-Isfarāyinī, and their peers.

He was an erudite scholar, righteous, virtuous, and a preacher, counted among the leading Shāfiʿī jurists.

Those who narrated from him include his son ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad—one of al-Bayhaqī’s teachers—Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, and Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī.

Al-Ḥākim said: “He is well-known for the abundance of his hadiths, his travels, his writings, his companionship with the righteous, and he was among the peripatetic ḥuffāẓ.”

ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad informed us; Ibn Ruzbah informed us; Abū al-Waqt informed us; Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad of Būshanj informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, the ḥāfiẓ, dictated to us at Isfarāyin, saying: Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Maqdisī narrated to us; he said: Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qushayrī narrated to us; he said: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:

He saw a man to whom another had offered a sprig of sweet basil, but the man declined it. Ibn ʿUmar took it, kissed it, placed it upon his eye, and said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say:”