men from among the scholars of ḥadith. (1)
It has already been noted that al-Ḥākim died suddenly in Ṣafar of the year 405 AH, and that the judge Abū Bakr al-Ḥayrī led the funeral prayer.
In that same year there also passed away the Meccan musnid, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Firās al-ʿAbqasī (2); the Baghdādī musnid, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Mujbir (3); the ḥāfiẓ of Shirāz, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Layth al-Shīrāzī, the Qurʾān-reader (4); the Damascene musnid, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd al-Sulamī (5); the judge of Baghdad, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Akfānī (6); the leading Shāfiʿī scholar, Abū al-Qāsim Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad ibn Kajj al-Dīnawarī (7); and the Shāfiʿī shaykh of Basra, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣaymarī (8).
- Ibn al-Faraḍī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Qurṭubī—
the imām, ḥāfiẓ, accomplished scholar, and reliable authority, Abū al-Walīd ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn