in Muhammad ibn al-Nuʿmān, nor have we ever heard the like of it for any judge in Iraq. He was lavish in his description and commendation of him, portraying him as awe-inspiring and committed to establishing justice, and whenever he was absent, his brother’s sons acted in his stead.
He died in Ṣafar of the year 389 AH, after which the judgeship passed to his nephew al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī.
400 – Ibn Ḥabābah, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī
The shaykh, senior transmitter, scholar, and reliable authority: Abū al-Qāsim ʿUbayd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān ibn Ḥabābah—lightly pronounced—al-Baghdādī, al-Mattūwathī (1), the cloth-merchant.
He was born in 300 AH.
He heard from Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī his collection known as “the Jaʿdiyyāt,”
and he also learned from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, Ibn Sāʿid, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl, al-Azajī ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Aḥmad al-Azharī, Abū Muḥammad al-Ṣarīfīnī al-Khaṭīb, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb said, “He was trustworthy.” He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 389 AH, and the funeral prayer was led by Imām Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyīnī.
ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad and al-Musallam ibn Muḥammad informed us, with authorization, saying:
Abū al-Yumn al-Kindī told us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad told us; Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī told us—