153 – al-Kharkūshī, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm
The Imām, exemplar, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī ʿUthmān Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nīshāpūrī, the preacher.

Kharkūsh is the name of a lane in Nīshāpūr.

He transmitted ḥadith from Ḥāmid al-Raffāʾ, Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr, Abū ʿAmr ibn Maṭar, Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd, and their contemporaries.

He studied jurisprudence with Abū al-Ḥasan al-Māsarjisī.

He heard traditions in Damascus, Baghdad, and Mecca; he stayed for a time in the Sacred Precinct, kept company with the leading scholars, preached and wrote, was granted extraordinary acceptance, and his reputation spread far and wide.

His works include a large Qurʾānic commentary, the book Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa (Proofs of Prophethood), and the book al-Zuhd (1).

Those who narrated from him are: al-Ḥākim—though older than he—al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Khallāl, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī bi-Allah, Abū Ṣāliḥ the muezzin, Abū Bakr ibn Khalaf, and many others.

Al-Ḥākim said, “I declare that I have never seen anyone who combined such breadth of knowledge, asceticism, humility, and direction toward Allah and toward renunciation of the world as he did. May Allah increase him in success and grant us felicity during his days. His writings have now become widespread.”