He was an ascetic and a jurist, devoted to abundant worship and continual spiritual striving; the senior shaykhs sought blessing from his supplications. He lived for ninety years and died in Dhū al-Qaʿda, 448 AH.

9 – al-Qādisī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad *

The venerable, long-lived shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb al-Qādisī, later al-Baghdādī, the cloth-merchant.

He held dictation sessions in the Manṣūr Mosque transmitting from Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī, Abū Bakr al-Warrāq, and Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān.

Among those who narrated from him was Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Narsī, who said: “He used to listen for his own benefit, and his audition is sound. From him we heard the Kudaymī booklet (1), a portion of the ḥadīth of al-Qaʿnabī (2), and several parts of the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad.”

I [the author] say: The Kudaymī booklet has reached us through the chain of Ubayy from him.

Al-Khaṭīb (3) said: “I attended him one day and asked to see his source manuscripts. He handed me reliable originals copied from Ibn Shādhān and others. I said, ‘Show me your original that goes back to al-Qaṭīʿī.’ He replied: ”