and Abū Sulaymān al-Khaṭṭābī; Shāfiʿ ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAwana; Abū al-Faḍl ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Fāmī; ʿUmar ibn ʿIrāq, the Qur’an reciter; Abū al-Faraj al-Shanbūdhī; Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ḥātimī, the philologist and scribe; Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥaddādī of Marw; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Udfuwī, the exegete; and Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf ibn al-Dakhīl of Mecca.
365 – Ibn al-Furāt Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī*
An imām, ḥāfiẓ, distinguished scholar, and consummate master, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Furāt al-Baghdādī.
He heard hadiths from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Maḥāmlī, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī, and many others, gathering an extensive corpus.
Those who narrated from him include Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Bādī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Rizmah, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Barmakī, and others.
Jaʿfar al-Sarrāj said: “I heard Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb remark, ‘Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Furāt is unsurpassed in precision and an authoritative proof in his transmission.’”
Al-Khaṭīb also reported: “I was informed that Ibn al-Furāt had in his possession one thousand fascicles transmitted solely from the preacher ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Miṣrī, and that he authored one hundred works of exegesis and one hundred works of history.”
Al-Azharī told me that Ibn al-Furāt left behind eighteen chests filled with books,