fascicles; The Book of Brothers from among the People of Knowledge—in two volumes; The Book of the Hallmarks of Prophethood—in ten tomes; The Book of Karamāt (miraculous graces)—in two volumes; the Musnad of Muḥammad ibn Fuṭays—fifty fascicles; the Musnad of Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh al-ʿAwālī (transmissions with elevated chains)—three volumes; and the Book of al-Manāwala wa-l-Ijāza (hand-to-hand transmission and written authorization)—one volume.

He had served as vizier to al-Muẓaffar ibn Abī ʿĀmir, but upon being appointed to the judiciary he set aside the garb of viziers.

He was just, unbending in his rulings (1), an ocean among the oceans of knowledge, and a man of great stature (2).

He lived fifty-five years and died midway through Dhū al-Qaʿdah, in 402 AH. The funeral prayer was led by his son Muḥammad—may Allah have mercy on him.

124 – Abū Aḥmad al-Farḍī ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad

The imām, the exemplar, the Shaykh of Iraq: Abū Aḥmad ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Muslim al-Baghdādī, the inheritance-law expert and Qurʾān reciter. He studied the Qurʾān with Ibn Buyān (3).