Ibrāhīm al-Baghdādī, a Shāfiʿī, popularly known as Ibn al-Akfānī.

He received hadith from Judge Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Maḥāmilī, ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Salāmah, Ibn ʿUqda, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Jawzajānī, and a number of others.

Those who transmitted from him include Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī, and several others.

Al-Tanūkhī relates: Abū Isḥāq al-Ṭabarī said to me, “Whoever claims that anyone spent one hundred thousand dinars on the scholars is lying—except Abū Muḥammad Ibn al-Akfānī.” (1)

Al-Tanūkhī also said: All the judicial posts of Baghdad were combined for him in 396 AH. (2) He died in 405 AH, at about eighty-nine years of age.

The leading Imāmī (Twelver) authority in Iraq:

95 – Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ḥasan al-Jawharī *

He authored several works, among them Akhbār al-Ithnay ʿAshar (“Reports about the Twelve”), the book al-Shijāj, and other writings. (3) He died in 401 AH.

96 – Ibn Jumayʿ, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghassānī **

The shaykh, scholar, righteous man, senior transmitter, hadith specialist, and indefatigable traveller, Abū al-Ḥusayn