and other writings as well. (3)
Among those who narrated from him were Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Baqqāl and Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Zajjāj, the teacher of al-Silafī. A number of leading scholars studied under him. He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 421 AH, having lived close to ninety years.
314 – Ibn Naẓīf, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Miṣrī *
The shaykh, scholar, hadith transmitter, and long-lived master Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Naẓīf al-Miṣrī, known as al-Farrāʾ, was the brother of Shaykh Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl.
He was born in Safar of the year 341 AH.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Fawāris Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sindi al-Ṣābūnī; al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Rāfiqī (1); Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Isḥāq ibn ʿUtbah al-Rāzī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Mawt al-Makkī; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAṭiyya al-Ḥaddād; Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Shamʿī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Ward; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Masrūr al-Ḥaṭṭāb; and many others.
In his day he alone enjoyed chains of transmission of such exceptional height.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Kākū—teacher of Wajīh al-Shahhāmī—Abū al-Qāsim Saʿd ibn ʿAlī al-Zanjānī, Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī.