285 – Al-Ardastānī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad *

The imam, ḥāfiẓ, itinerant scholar, righteous and devout: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Ardastānī.

He heard ḥadīth from a great many teachers, among them Abū al-Shaykh, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, Yūsuf al-Qawwās, ʿUmar ibn Shāhīn, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlqama al-Abharī, and Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥājib al-Kushānī.

His transmissions are cited in the (Ṣaḥīḥ). In ʿAkkā he met Abū Zurʿah al-Muqriʾ and recited before a number of scholars.

Among those who narrated from him were Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Qūmisānī, Ibn Mamān, Ẓafar ibn Hibat Allāh, and other scholars of Hamadān. Abū Naṣr al-Shīrāzī the Qurʾān-reciter, as well as al-Bayhaqī—who praised his remarkable memorization—also transmitted from him in their works.

Shīrawayh said, “He was reliable and excelled in this field. I heard several people say, ‘No one who has a need, whether of this world or the next, visits his grave and supplicates there except that Allah answers him.’” He then added, “I have personally experienced this.”

In 493 AH ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Ṭāhir in Hamadān received the complete Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī from him.

I say: He is one of those whom Ibn ʿAsākir failed to mention in his History.

Together with his mastery of the prophetic reports, he was devoted to the Book of Allah and held in high esteem; in Basra he studied under