righteous, devout.”
I heard ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī say: “Ibn al-Ṣalt took some books that belonged to Ibn Abī al-Dunyā and reported them as though they were from al-Bardhaʿī.” Al-Azajī was indicating that those books had never been in al-Bardhaʿī’s possession (1).
Al-Mujbir died at the age of ninety-one, in the month of Rajab, 405 AH. He is the transmitter of the Bānyāsī juzʾ.
As for his namesake, the eminent hadith scholar:
108 – Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ahwāzī*
The son of Mūsā ibn Hārūn ibn al-Ṣalt al-Ahwāzī, later resident in Baghdad; he was born in 324 AH.
He studied under the judge Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Maḥāmilī, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār, and ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Salāmah al-Ḥimṣī.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Manda, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb said (2): “He was trustworthy and righteous.”
He passed away in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 409 AH. The last of his pupils to die was ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Quraysh al-Bannāʾ.