the blind Shafiʿi jurist, one of the foremost authorities of the school in Baghdad and a direct disciple of Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid. Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “He taught and issued legal verdicts, and after Qāḍī Abū al-Ṭayyib (2) no one was more proficient in jurisprudence than he.” He transmitted hadith from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaydalanī. I wrote down traditions from him; he passed away in Ṣafar, 448 AH. He was considered superior to Manṣūr al-Karkhī and Abū Naṣr al-Nābitī.
7 – Ibn Maʾmūn, Ḥumayd ibn al-Maʾmūn ibn Ḥumayd al-Qaysī *
The shaykh, scholar, man of letters, and trustworthy narrator, Abū Ghānim Ḥumayd ibn al-Maʾmūn ibn Ḥumayd ibn Rāfiʿ al-Qaysī, of Hamadhān, the grammarian, who transmitted the book al-Alqāb (3) from its author Abū Bakr al-Shīrāzī. He also narrated from Abū Bakr ibn Lāl, Aḥmad ibn Turkān, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Bayyiʿ, Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baṣīr al-Rāzī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jahḍam, and several others.
Shīrawayh said: “I did not meet him, but Abū al-Faḍl al-Qūmsānī, Ibn Mamān, Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Bayyiʿ, most of my teachers, and many of our elders narrated from him. He was reliable.” He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 448 AH.
I (the author) add: He granted an ijāzah to ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Qushayrī.