and Abū Naṣr al-Ṭuraythīthī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Rāzī, and others.
His own teacher, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī (1), even copied traditions from him, yet ʿAbd al-Ghanī had died long before him.
Abū al-Faḍl al-Saʿdī passed away in Shaʿbān—though another report says in Shawwāl—of the year 441 AH, when he was in his eighties.
2 – al-Nuqānī, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr *
The Imām Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr transmitted Sunan al-Dārquṭnī directly from him. He heard the collection from him with only a slight omission specifically noted in the manuscript: “al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad al-Abīwardī, the perfumer, in Nīshābūr, in the year 440 AH.” The missing portion amounted to two fascicles, which he subsequently obtained from Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣābūnī (2) by virtue of al-Dārquṭnī’s written authorisation.
Abū Saʿīd al-Samʿānī said: “He was trustworthy, virtuous, and abundantly devoted to hadith.”
He died in 448 AH.
3 – Ibn al-Maʾmūnī, al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām al-Ruʿaynī ** (3)
A native of Sabtah (4), a Mālikī
(1) He is Abu Muhammad ʿAbd al-Ghani ibn Saʿid al-Azdi al-Misri, author of the book Mushtabih al-nisba; he died in 409 AH. His biography has already been given in vol. 17, no. 164.
(*) Al-Taqyid, fol. 189 b; al-Mushtabih, 2/650; Tawdih al-mushtabih, 3/fol. 81 b; Tabsir al-muntabih, 1/143; Taj al-ʿarus, 9/356, s.v. “naqna”.
The nisba “al-Nuqani” is vocalised with an initial fatha on the nun according to al-Samʿani, and with a damma according to Yaqut; the waw is quiescent, the qaf carries a fatha, and after the alif comes a nun. It refers to Nuqan, one of the two towns that made up Tus, the other being Tabaran; cf. al-Lubab, 3/332, and Muʿjam al-buldan, 5/311.
(2) His biography will appear below under no. 17 of this volume.
(**) Tartib al-madarik, 4/784; al-Sila, 2/470.
(3) The nisba is vocalised with a damma on the ra, a fatha on the ʿayn, a silent ya, and a final nun; it derives from Dhu Raʿyin, one of the noble families of Yemen. See al-Ansab, 6/139.
(4) The nisba “as-Sabti” refers to Sabta (Ceuta), a city in the Maghreb situated on the Strait of Gibraltar.