I say: The last person to transmit his hadith with a high-level isnad was Karīmah al-Qurashiyyah (1). A sizeable collection has reached us through his chain, including most of the Maghāzī of Ibn ʿĀʾidh (2).
231 – al-Kāghadī, Manṣūr b. Naṣr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm
He was the musnid of Samarkand, the venerable shaykh Abū al-Faḍl Manṣūr b. Naṣr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Mat al-Samarqandī, known as al-Kāghadī; the high-grade “Manṣūrī” paper is named after him. He was the last person to narrate from al-Haytham b. Kulayb al-Shāshī and Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Jammāl, and he lived for nearly one hundred years.
Among those who reported from him are: Abū al-Ḥasan b. Khidhām (3), Abū Isḥāq al-Iṣbahānī, Abū Bakr al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bukhārī, the jurist Abū Bakr al-Shāshī, and others from the lands beyond the Oxus.
He died in Samarkand in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 423 AH.
(1) She is Karima, daughter of the reliable hadith scholar Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab b. Ali, the Musnida of al-Sham. Her full name is Umm al-Fadl al-Qurashiyya al-Asadiyya al-Zubayriyya al-Dimashqiyya, and she was popularly called “the daughter of Hubqabaq.” She died in 641 AH. Her detailed biography will appear in volume 22.
(2) This refers to the imam and historian Abu Abd Allah Muhammad b. Aidh al-Qurashi al-Dimashqi, who died in 234 AH; his biography has already been given in volume 11, no. 33.
(*) Al-Ansab 10/327; al-Lubab 3/76; al-Ibar 3/152-153; Shadharat al-Dhahab 3/226. – The nisba al-Kaghadi derives from kaghad (Persian, “writing-paper”), with both dal and dhal dotted.
(3) The original manuscript writes the name with a dotted kha and a dotted dhal. Mushtabih al-Muallif 1/146 records it with a dotted kha: “Ali b. Muhammad al-Khudhami, among whose forefathers was Khudham….” Ibn Nasir al-Din comments in Tawdih al-Mushtabih 1/126: “I found that the author, that is, al-Dhahabi, placed a dot above the dal in both occurrences, whereas it should be left undotted; before it comes a dotted, kasra-vowelled kha.” The same spelling is adopted by al-Amir 3/7, Ibn al-Samani 5/57, and others. It seems al-Dhahabi followed Ibn Nuqtah, for he linked the name to al-Judhami (with jim and dotted dhal) and then said: “As for al-Khudhami, with a dotted, kasra-vowelled kha, the rest is identical,” and he listed it accordingly.