274 – al-Lalkāʾī, Hibat Allah ibn al-Hasan ibn Manṣūr al-Ṭabarī
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, exacting scholar, and muftī: Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allah ibn al-Hasan ibn Manṣūr al-Ṭabarī, al-Rāzī, the Shāfiʿī, widely known as al-Lalkāʾī, the foremost teacher of Baghdad in his day.

He heard (hadith) from ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī the Vizier, Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis, Jaʿfar ibn Fannākī al-Rāzī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Jundī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qaṣṣār, al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Muḥammad, Abū Aḥmad al-Farāḍī, and a number of others.

He studied jurisprudence with Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid and excelled in the school.

Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, his son Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allah, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭuraythīthī, Makkī al-Karajī al-Sallār, and many others.

Al-Khaṭīb said, “He was sharp-minded and possessed a strong memory. He authored a book on the Sunnah (1). Death came to him suddenly: he travelled to Dīnawār, and his appointed time overtook him there in Ramadan, 418 AH (2).”

He also related: “ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Jaddāʾ al-ʿUkbarī told me, ‘I saw Hibat Allah al-Ṭabarī in a dream, so I asked him, “What has Allah done with you?” He replied, “He forgave me.” I said…’”