and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bajalī, the judge Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī, Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kanjarwadhī, and many others besides them.

Al-Khaṭīb (1) declared him trustworthy, and he taught ḥadith in Baghdad.

He passed away in Samarqand in 405 AH, at over eighty years of age, and was the leading ḥāfiẓ of his day in that city.

Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah informed us; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad related to us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Mustamlī reported; Abū Saʿd the physician narrated; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, on arriving for the pilgrimage, told us; Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad in Samarqand told us; al-Qāsim ibn Ḥanbal al-Sarakh­sī told us; Isḥāq ibn Ismāʿīl al-Samarqandī (2) conveyed to us; Maʿrūf ibn Ḥassān al-Samarqandī narrated from Ibn Abī Dhīb, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Whoever raises a tree until it takes root shall have the reward of one who spends the night in prayer and the day in fasting, and the reward of a combatant in the path of Allah for the span of his life.’”

This chain is obscure, and the text itself is not authentic; it has been wrongly attributed to Ibn Abī Dhīb.

136 – Abū Masʿūd Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Dimashqī *

The ḥāfiẓ, accomplished master, and outstanding scholar, Abū Masʿūd Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd