is Sībawayh; their authority on prosody is al-Khalīl; their orator is Ibn Nubātah; their prose stylist is al-Qāḍī al-Fāḍil; and their champion in arms is Khālid ibn al-Walīd—may Allah be pleased with him.
193 – al-Basṭāmī, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad
The shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs and qāḍī of Naysābūr—Imām Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Haytham al-Basṭāmī, the Shāfiʿī preacher—undertook extensive travels and possessed many virtues.
He studied under al-Ṭabarānī, Aḥmad ibn al-Jārūd al-Raqqī, al-Qaṭīʿī, ʿAlī ibn Ḥammād al-Ahwāzī, and Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Khurrāzādh.
After a period of preaching he assumed the chairs of teaching and issuing legal opinions, and he was appointed judge. On that occasion the specialists in hadith displayed every manner of joy (1).
Those who transmitted from him include al-Ḥākim, al-Bayhaqī, Abū Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzakkī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Ṣarrām, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī, and many others.
He enjoyed great respect and high standing. He married the daughter of the ustādh Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṣuʿlūkī, who bore him al-Muʾayyad (2) and al-Muwaffaq (3).