ibn Muḥammad ibn Fāris al-Khayyāṭ, ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn ʿAṭṭāb, Yaḥyā al-Sībī (1), and Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī.
al-Khaṭīb (2) said: “He was truthful, devout, and distinguished. In his day he was unrivalled for the lofty chains of transmission he held for the Qurʾān readings. He died in Shaʿbān, 417 AH.”
Sulaym al-Rāzī said: I heard Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris say, “If a man were to journey from Khurāsān merely to hear a single word from Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī or from Abū Aḥmad al-Faraḍī, in our view his journey would not be in vain.”
This report was narrated by al-Khaṭīb in his History (3) through Naṣr al-Maqdisī, from him.
266 – Ibn al-Maḥāmilī, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ḍabbī*
The eminent imam and leading Shāfiʿī authority: Abū al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḍabbī, the Baghdadi Shāfiʿī known as Ibn al-Maḥāmilī, was one of the foremost scholars.
(1) Abu al-Qasim Yahya b. Ahmad al-Sibi al-Qasri, a scholar from Baghdad who died there in 490 AH/1097 CE. He is treated by the present author in Maʿrifat al-Qurraʾ al-Kibar, vol. 1, pp. 307, 358, and by Ibn al-Jazari in Ghayat al-Nihaya, vol. 2, p. 365.
(2) Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 11, pp. 329–330.
(3) Ibid.
(*) See: Tabaqat al-Abbadi, p. 113; Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 4, p. 372; Tabaqat al-Shirazi, p. 108; al-Muntazam, vol. 8, p. 17; al-Kamil, vol. 9, p. 341; Tabaqat Ibn al-Salah, fol. 35 b; Tabaqat al-Nawawi, p. 58; Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat, vol. 2, p. 210 (within the entry on Abu Hamid al-Isfarayini); Wafayat al-Aʿyan, vol. 1, pp. 74–75; al-Ibar, vol. 3, p. 119; Duwal al-Islam, vol. 1, p. 247; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, vol. 7, p. 321; Mirat al-Jinan, vol. 3, p. 29; Tabaqat al-Subki, vol. 4, pp. 48–56; Tabaqat al-Isnawi, vol. 2, pp. 381–382; al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, vol. 12, p. 18; al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 4, p. 262; Tabaqat Ibn Hidaya Allah, pp. 132–133; Kashf al-Zunun, pp. 351, 1130, 1366, 1541, 1606, 1810; Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 202; Hadiyat al-ʿArifin, vol. 1, p. 72.