160 – al-Maḥāmilī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim*
The jurist and leading imam: Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḍabbī, known as al-Maḥāmilī of Baghdad, one of the senior Shāfiʿī scholars.
Born: 332 AH.
He received ḥadith from Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, ʿUthmān ibn al-Sammāk, al-Najjād, Abū ʿUmar al-Zāhid, and a number of others.
Among those who narrated from him were Sulaym al-Rāzī, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn Abī ʿUthmān, his brother Aḥmad, and others.
Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “He memorised the Qurʾān and the laws of inheritance, studied the madhhab, wrote down ḥadith, and was someone who grew in goodness day after day.” (1)
Al-Khaṭīb said, “I attended his sessions more than once. He passed away in Rajab 407 AH. He was trustworthy, truthful, devout, and virtuous. None of what I heard from him has reached me.” (2)
161 – Ibn Barhānah, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUmar al-Baghdādī*
The shaykh, trustworthy and righteous: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUmar ibn Barhān